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Tutorial Overview
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`Latest Ascent Tutorial Intro Slides [pdf] <https://www.ascent-dav.org/tutorial/2025_07_22_ascent_tutorial.pdf>`_

This tutorial introduces how to use Ascent, including basics about:

 - Formatting mesh data for Ascent
 - Using Conduit and Ascent's Conduit-based API
 - Using and combining Ascent's core building blocks: Scenes, Pipelines, Extracts, Queries, and Triggers
 - Using Ascent with the Cloverleaf3D example integration

Ascent installs include standalone C++, Python, and Python-based Jupyter notebook examples for this tutorial. 
You can find the tutorial source code and notebooks in your Ascent install directory under ``examples/ascent/tutorial/ascent_intro/`` and the Cloverleaf3D demo files under ``examples/ascent/tutorial/cloverleaf_demos/``.



Tutorials:
 * `Introduction to Ascent, a Flyweight In Situ Visualization and Analysis for HPC Simulations @ LLNL's HPCIC AWS Tutorial Series 2025 <https://hpcic.llnl.gov/tutorials/2025-hpc-tutorials>`_ - July 2025, Virtual
 * `Introduction to Ascent, a Flyweight In Situ Visualization and Analysis for HPC Simulations @ LLNL's HPCIC AWS Tutorial Series 2024 <https://hpcic.llnl.gov/tutorials/2024-hpc-tutorials>`_ - August 2024, Virtual
 * In-Situ Analysis and Visualization with Ascent @ ATPESC24 - August 2024, St. Charles, IL, USA
 * `In-Situ Analysis and Visualization with Ascent and ParaView Catalyst <https://sc23.supercomputing.org/presentation/?id=tut133&sess=sess211>`_ - November 2023, Denver, CO, USA
 * `Introduction to Ascent, a Flyweight In Situ Visualization and Analysis for HPC Simulations @ LLNL's RADIUSS AWS Tutorial Series 2023 <https://software.llnl.gov/radiuss/event/2023/07/11/radiuss-on-aws/>`_ - August 2023, Virtual
 * `Introduction to Ascent, a Flyweight In Situ Visualization and Analysis for HPC Simulations @ LLNL's RADIUSS AWS Tutorial Series 2022 <https://software.llnl.gov/radiuss/event/2022/07/07/radiuss-on-aws/>`_ - August 2022, Virtual
 * `In Situ Analysis and Visualization with ParaView Catalyst and Ascent @ ISC 2022 <https://app.swapcard.com/widget/event/isc-high-performance-2022/planning/UGxhbm5pbmdfODYxMTUx>`_ - May 2022, Hamburg, Germany 
 * ECP 2022 Annual Meeting - May 2022, Virtual
 * `In Situ Analysis and Visualization with SENSEI and Ascent @ SC21 <https://sc21.supercomputing.org/presentation/?id=tut127&sess=sess190>`_ - Nov 2021, Virtual
 * ECP 2021 Annual Meeting - April 2021, Virtual
 * `In Situ Scientific Analysis and Visualization using ALPINE Ascent @ ECP Training Event <https://www.exascaleproject.org/event/ascent-201217/>`_ - Dec 2020, Virtual
 * `In Situ Analysis and Visualization with SENSEI and Ascent @ SC20 <https://sc20.supercomputing.org/presentation/?id=tut111&sess=sess257>`_ - Nov 2020, Virtual
 * ECP 2020 Annual Meeting - Feb 2020, Houston, TX, USA
 * `In Situ Analysis and Visualization with SENSEI and Ascent @ SC19 <https://sc19.supercomputing.org/presentation/?id=tut141&sess=sess199>`_ - Nov 2019, Denver, CO, USA
 * ECP 2019 Annual Meeting - Jan 2019, Houston, TX, USA
 * ECP 2018 Annual Meeting - Feb 2018, Knoxville, TX, USA