The analysis of program performance on massively parallel (MPP) systems is a non-trivial task which is increasingly performed using visualization tools. Conventional processing, analysis, and display methods typically...
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The analysis of program performance on massively parallel (MPP) systems is a non-trivial task which is increasingly performed using visualization tools. Conventional processing, analysis, and display methods typically do not adequately support the evaluation of program performance on large-scale parallel systems. These methods can be limited by the sheer volume of performance data and often lack any rigorous approach to analyze it. The objective of the approach outlined is to develop a more powerful method to analyze performance data visually as well as statistically which is scalable and extensible and which represents some physical and/or logical structure of the parallel system state. The approach focuses on applying image processing and analysis techniques to MPP performance analysis. This approach has been prototyped and tested for proof-of-concept. The AVS scientific visualization tool is used to analyze and display images of performance data from program executions on actual machines. Results of these experiments are presented.< >
This paper describes a multiresolution approach to the visualization of surface data. The algorithms discussed allow the generation of arbitrary views of 3-dimensional surfaces. Image processing and texture mapping te...
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This paper describes a multiresolution approach to the visualization of surface data. The algorithms discussed allow the generation of arbitrary views of 3-dimensional surfaces. Image processing and texture mapping techniques are combined in a new 3-pass scanline algorithm to achieve smooth and continuous translations, rotations, and scale changes of largedata sets. The implementation of the algorithms on a massively parallel SIMD video supercomputer, the Princeton Engine, allows the scenes to be generated interactively at video rates.
A new 3D technique for the human spontaneous intracerebral brain hemorrhage (ICH) region segmentation and quantification is presented in this paper. The ICH primary region segmentation algorithm uses the K-means histo...
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A new 3D technique for the human spontaneous intracerebral brain hemorrhage (ICH) region segmentation and quantification is presented in this paper. The ICH primary region segmentation algorithm uses the K-means histogram-based clustering algorithm. The ICH edema region segmentation algorithm employs an iterative morphological processing of the ICH brain data. A volume rendering technique is used for the effective 3D visualization of ICH segmented regions. A computer program is developed for use in the human spontaneous ICH study involving large number of patients. Some experimental measurements and visualization results are presented which were computed on real ICH patient brain data.< >
A critical issue for scientific investigators is ready access to the large volume of data generated by large-scale supercomputer simulations and physical experiments. The authors describe the current status of a colla...
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A critical issue for scientific investigators is ready access to the large volume of data generated by large-scale supercomputer simulations and physical experiments. The authors describe the current status of a collaborative effort which focuses on managing data produced by climate modeling applications. The project is aimed at significantly improving the accessibility and ease of use of large scientific databases, in the context of a hierarchical mass storage system. The following aspects of the work are considered in detail: physical database design, metadata, storage, the mass storage system interface, and reduced data sets.< >
A parallel implementation of a hierarchical symbolic analysis algorithm (SCAPP) on a 128-node nCUBE hypercube class processor is presented. The basic operation involves exploiting the inherent parallelism in the symbo...
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A parallel implementation of a hierarchical symbolic analysis algorithm (SCAPP) on a 128-node nCUBE hypercube class processor is presented. The basic operation involves exploiting the inherent parallelism in the symbolic analysis algorithm on two levels. The first level is scheduling the partitions of a circuit onto a subset of available processors. The second level is dividing and scheduling, for each partition, the tasks of reducing the sparse symbolic modified nodal analysis matrix using the rest of the available processors. The algorithm does not impose any constraints on the number of processors required and uses minimal data movement. This results in low communication overhead between the processors. The algorithm is applicable to any general message-passing multiprocessor architecture. A speedup on the order p (number of processors) is achieved.< >
Volume rendering has been proposed as a useful tool for extracting information from largedatasets, where non-visual analysis alone may not be feasible. The scale of these applications implies that data management is ...
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Volume rendering has been proposed as a useful tool for extracting information from largedatasets, where non-visual analysis alone may not be feasible. The scale of these applications implies that data management is an important issue that needs to be addressed. Most volume rendering algorithms, however, process data in raw, uncompressed form. In previous work, we introduced a compressed volume format that may be volume rendered directly with minimal impact on rendering time. In this paper, we extend these ideas to a new volume format that not only reduces storage space and transmission time, but is designed for fast volume rendering as well. The volume dataset is represented as indices into a small codebook of representative blocks. With the data structure, volume shading calculations need only be performed on the codebook and image generation is accelerated by reusing precomputed block projections.< >
Principal component analysis (PCA) is a data-driven technique used to explain the variance-covariance structure of a data set. PCA of noisy image data can be expected to be hard to perform properly, since PCA has no w...
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Principal component analysis (PCA) is a data-driven technique used to explain the variance-covariance structure of a data set. PCA of noisy image data can be expected to be hard to perform properly, since PCA has no way to discriminate between variance due to signals and variance due to noise. Further, PCA call not discriminate between pixels belonging to the background and pixels belonging to the object(s). The authors show that PCA of gamma camera and positron emission tomography (PET) images can be significantly improved by taking the noise and spatial background into consideration. The two applications represent two fundamentally different noise problems, namely large background noise and signal dependent noise. The problems are illustrated using a synthetic image and a methodology for exploring the feature space called multivariate image analysis (MIA). After defining the problems, a methodology for handling the noise is proposed. The preprocessing which is proposed is equivalent to expressing pixels according to their significance levels.< >
In this paper, we propose a method for locating faults using an E-beam tester together with a conventional LSI tester. This method applies the fault analysis method using vector pairs by Cox and Rajski to the analysis...
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In this paper, we propose a method for locating faults using an E-beam tester together with a conventional LSI tester. This method applies the fault analysis method using vector pairs by Cox and Rajski to the analysis and diagnosis using E-beam tester. Since an accurate observation of VLSI is possible by E-beam probing, high fault coverage with a few observation time can be attained.< >
An integrated relational database (DB) system consisting of process, PMTEG (Process Monitoring Test Element Group), and LSI testing DBs is implemented on a high speed DB machine for effective correlation analysis. For...
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An integrated relational database (DB) system consisting of process, PMTEG (Process Monitoring Test Element Group), and LSI testing DBs is implemented on a high speed DB machine for effective correlation analysis. For saving DB machine disk area, only the process data necessary for correlation analyses are temporarily stored in the DB on the DB machine. The body of the process data is stored in a distributed DB on the EWSs used to control the LSI manufacturing line equipment. A correlation analysis program, which has a user-friendly window-type man-machine interface, has been developed for the integrated DB. The program retrieves data at high speed with parallel access to the DB. The total performance of the correlation analyses is improved over ten times compared with the old system that included stand-alone DBs and a PC-based correlation analysis program.< >
Clock distribution networks synchronize the flow of data signals between data paths, and the design of these networks can dramatically affect system wide performance and reliability. The field of clock distribution de...
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Clock distribution networks synchronize the flow of data signals between data paths, and the design of these networks can dramatically affect system wide performance and reliability. The field of clock distribution design can be grouped into a number of subtopics: 1) circuit and layout techniques for structured custom VLSI systems; 2) the automated synthesis of clock distribution networks with application to automated synthesis of clock distribution networks with application to automated placement and routing of gate arrays, standard cells, and larger block-oriented circuits; 3) the analysis and modeling of the timing characteristics of clock distribution networks; and 4) the specification of the optimal timing characteristics of clock distribution networks based on architectural and functional performance requirements. Each of these areas is described and summarized. Future trends are discussed.< >
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