Graph drawing is a basic visualization tool that works well for graphs having up to hundreds of nodes and edges. At greater scale, data density and occlusion problems often negate its effectiveness. Conventional pan-a...
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(纸本)0780387793
Graph drawing is a basic visualization tool that works well for graphs having up to hundreds of nodes and edges. At greater scale, data density and occlusion problems often negate its effectiveness. Conventional pan-and-zoom, multiscale, and geometric fisheye views are not fully satisfactory solutions to this problem. As an alternative, we propose a topological zooming method. It precomputes a hierarchy of coarsened graphs that are combined on-the-fly into renderings, with the level of detail dependent on distance from one or more foci. A related geometric distortion method yields constant information density displays from these renderings.
We present HiTSEE (High-Throughput Screening Exploration Environment) a visualization tool for the analysis of large chemical screens for the analysis of biochemical processes. The tool supports the analysis of struct...
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One of the challenging tasks in visual analytics is to target clustered time-series data sets, since it is important for data analysts to discover patterns changing over time while keeping their focus on particular su...
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As high performance computing approaches exascale, CPU capability far outpaces disk write speed, and in situ visualization becomes an essential part of an analyst's workflow. In this paper, we describe the ParaVie...
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large scale scientific simulation codes typically run on a cluster of CPUs that write/read time steps to/from a single file system. As data sets are constantly growing in size, this increasingly leads to I/O bottlenec...
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large scale scientific simulation codes typically run on a cluster of CPUs that write/read time steps to/from a single file system. As data sets are constantly growing in size, this increasingly leads to I/O bottlenecks. When the rate at which data is produced exceeds the available I/O bandwidth, the simulation stalls and the CPUs are idle. data compression can alleviate this problem by using some CPU cycles to reduce the amount of data needed to be transfered. Most compression schemes, however, are designed to operate offline and seek to maximize compression, not throughput. Furthermore, they often require quantizing floating-point values onto a uniform integer grid, which disqualifies their use in applications where exact values must be retained. We propose a simple scheme for lossless, online compression of floating-point data that transparently integrates into the I/O of many applications. A plug-in scheme for data-dependent prediction makes our scheme applicable to a wide variety of data used in visualization, such as unstructured meshes, point sets, images, and voxel grids. We achieve state-of-the-art compression rates and speeds, the latter in part due to an improved entropy coder. We demonstrate that this significantly accelerates I/O throughput in real simulation runs. Unlike previous schemes, our method also adapts well to variable-precision floating-point and integer data.
High-fidelity simulation models on large-scale parallel computer systems can produce data at high computational throughput, but modern architectural trade-offs make full persistent storage to the slow I/O subsystem pr...
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Time series are an important type of data with applications in virtually every aspect of the real world. Often a large number of time series have to be monitored and analyzed in parallel. Sets of time series may show ...
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(纸本)078039464X
Time series are an important type of data with applications in virtually every aspect of the real world. Often a large number of time series have to be monitored and analyzed in parallel. Sets of time series may show intrinsic hierarchical relationships and varying degrees of importance among the individual time series. Effective techniques for visually analyzing large sets of time series should encode the relative importance and hierarchical ordering of the time series data by size and position, and should also provide a high degree of regularity ill order to support comparability by the analyst. In this paper, we present a framework for visualizing large sets of time series. Based on the notion of inter time series importance relationships, we define a set of objective functions that space-filling layout schemes for time series data should obey. We develop an efficient algorithm addressing the identified problems by generating layouts that reflect hierarchy- and importance-based relationships in a regular layout with favorable aspect ratios. We apply our technique to a number of real-world data sets including sales and stock data, and we compare our technique with an aspect ratio aware variant of the well-known TreeMap algorithm. The examples show the advantages and practical usefulness of our layout algorithm.
As high-performance computing (HPC) moves towards the exascale era, large-scale scientific simulations are generating enormous datasets. Many techniques (e.g., in-situ methods, data sampling, and compression) have bee...
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(纸本)9781728168760
As high-performance computing (HPC) moves towards the exascale era, large-scale scientific simulations are generating enormous datasets. Many techniques (e.g., in-situ methods, data sampling, and compression) have been proposed to help visualize these largedatasets under various constraints such as storage, power, and energy. However, evaluating these techniques and understanding the trade-offs (e.g., performance, efficiency, and quality) remains a challenging task. To enable exploration of the design space across such tradeoffs, we propose the Exploration Test Harness (ETH), an architecture for the early-stage exploration of visualization and rendering approaches, job layout, and visualization pipelines. ETH covers a broader parameter space than current large-scale visualization applications such as ParaView and VisIt. It also promotes the study of simulation-visualization coupling strategies through a data-centric approach, rather than requiring coupling with a specific scientific simulation code. Furthermore, with experimentation on an extensively instrumented supercomputer, we study more metrics of interest than was previously possible. Importantly, ETH will help to answer important what-if scenarios and trade-off questions in the early stages of pipeline development, helping scientists to make informed choices about how to best couple a simulation code with visualization at extreme scale.
Prior studies suggest that emotional empathy is one of the components of intercultural sensitivity - the affective dimension under the concept of intercultural communication competence. Based on existing theories and ...
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Prior studies suggest that emotional empathy is one of the components of intercultural sensitivity - the affective dimension under the concept of intercultural communication competence. Based on existing theories and findings, this paper reports a randomised parallel longitudinal study investigating the use of virtual reality (VR) exposure to enhance intercultural sensitivity. A total of 80 participants (36 females and 44 males) joined the study and were included in the data analysis. The participants were randomly assigned to the VR group, the video group, and the control group. Their intercultural sensitivity was measured three times: one week before the exposure (T-1), right after the exposure (T-2), and three weeks after the exposure (T-3). The results suggested that (1) the intercultural sensitivity of the VR group was significantly enhanced in both within-subject comparisons and between-subject comparisons, (2) there were no significant differences in intercultural sensitivity between the VR group and the video group at T-2, but the VR group retained the enhancement better at T-3, and (3) the sense of presence and emotional empathy well predicted the change in intercultural sensitivity of the VR group. The results, together with the participants' feedback and comments, provide new insights into the practice of using VR for intercultural sensitivity training and encourage future research on exploring the contributing factors of the results.
The proceedings contain 25 papers. The topics discussed include: in situ depth maps based feature extraction and tracking;tracking features in embedded surfaces: understanding extinction in turbulent combustion;cylind...
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(纸本)9781467385176
The proceedings contain 25 papers. The topics discussed include: in situ depth maps based feature extraction and tracking;tracking features in embedded surfaces: understanding extinction in turbulent combustion;cylindrical acceleration structures for large hexahedral volume visualization;flying edges: a high-performance scalable isocontouring algorithm;Lagrangian representations of flow fields with parameter curves;a compact multivariate histogram representation for query-driven visualization;a visual analytics paradigm enabling trillion-edge graph exploration;scalable visualization of discrete velocity decompositions using spatially organized histograms;exploring tradeoffs between power and performance for a scientific visualization algorithm;and utilizing many-core accelerators for halo and center finding within a cosmology simulation.
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