I/O Strategies for Parallel Rendering of Large Time-Varying Volume Data

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2004
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The Eurographics Association
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This paper presents I/O solutions for the visualization of time-varying volume data in a parallel and distributed computing environment. Depending on the number of rendering processors used, our I/O strategies help signifi- cantly lower interframe delay by employing a set of I/O processors coupled with MPI parallel I/O support. The targeted application is earthquake modeling using a large 3D unstructured mesh consisting of one hundred millions cells. Our test results on the HP/Compaq AlphaServer operated at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center demonstrate that the I/O strategies effectively remove the I/O bottlenecks commonly present in time-varying data visualization. This high-performance visualization solution we provide to the scientists allows them to explore their data in the temporal, spatial, and visualization domains at high resolution. This new high-resolution explorability, likely not presently available to most computational science groups, will help lead to many new insights.
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@inproceedings{
:10.2312/EGPGV/EGPGV04/031-040
, booktitle = {
Eurographics Workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
}, editor = {
Dirk Bartz and Bruno Raffin and Han-Wei Shen
}, title = {{
I/O Strategies for Parallel Rendering of Large Time-Varying Volume Data
}}, author = {
Yu, Hongfeng
and
Ma, Kwan-Liu
and
Welling, Joel
}, year = {
2004
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association
}, ISSN = {
1727-348X
}, ISBN = {
3-905673-11-8
}, DOI = {
/10.2312/EGPGV/EGPGV04/031-040
} }
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