[New Port Request] Viskores

Library name

Viskores

Library description

Viskores is a toolkit of scientific visualization algorithms for extremely multithreaded/parallelized processor architectures (I.e., GPUs) and high performance computing.

Importantly, Viskores replaces VTKm, which has been discontinued as of version 2.3.0.

From the Viskores repository:

Viskores is a toolkit of scientific visualization algorithms for emerging processor architectures. Viskores supports the fine-grained concurrency for data analysis and visualization algorithms required to drive extreme scale computing by providing abstract models for data and execution that can be applied to a variety of algorithms across many different processor architectures.

Source repository URL

https://github.com/viskores/viskores

Project homepage (if different from the source repository)

https://viskores.org/

Anything else that is useful to know when adding (such as optional features the library may have that should be included)

Due to the discontinuation of VTKm, many libraries and packages are currently in the process of migrating from VTKm to Viskores. It would be good to have a Viskores port ready in advance :)

Start by reviewing the Viskores source repository and its build instructions, then compare existing vcpkg ports for similar C++ visualization libraries. Confirm the port can obtain and build the requested Viskores release and that vcpkg's package checks pass; the issue does not name specific files or tests.