This paper presents research projects tackling two aspects in data mining. First, a toolbox is discussed that allows flexible and interactive data exploration, analysis and presentation using the scripting language Py...
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Our scalable isosurface visualization solution on a commodity off-the-shelf cluster is an end-to-end parallel and progressive platform, from the initial data access to the final display. In this paper we focus on the ...
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(纸本)9780780372238
Our scalable isosurface visualization solution on a commodity off-the-shelf cluster is an end-to-end parallel and progressive platform, from the initial data access to the final display. In this paper we focus on the back end scalability by introducing a fully parallel and out-of-core isosurface extraction algorithm. It partitions the volume data according to its workload spectrum for load balancing and creates an I/O-optimal external interval tree to minimize the number of I/O operations of loading largedata from disk. It achieves scalability by using both parallel processing and parallel disks. Interactive browsing of extracted isosurfaces is made possible by using parallel isosurface extraction and rendering in conjunction with a new specialized piece of image compositing hardware called the Metabuffer. We also describe an isosurface compression scheme that is efficient for isosurface processing.
large-scale science and engineering is frequently done through the interaction of collaborating groups, heterogeneous computing resources, information systems, and instruments, all of which are geographically and orga...
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(纸本)0769512968
large-scale science and engineering is frequently done through the interaction of collaborating groups, heterogeneous computing resources, information systems, and instruments, all of which are geographically and organizationally dispersed. The overall motivation for "Grids" is to enable the routine interactions of these resources to enhance this type of large-scale science and engineering, and thus substantially increase the computing and data handling capabilities available to science and engineering projects. However, even if this environment works in every other way, it will not be viable if it is constantly disrupted by hackers and their kin. Distributed applications are potentially more vulnerable than conventional scientific problem solving environments because there are substantially more targets to attack in order to impact a single application. Much of the overall security of Grids is inherited from the security of the underlying systems. There are, however, some security considerations at the Grid level that are independent of the underlying systems, and we focus on this later aspect.
This paper reports on efficient parallel implementations of two-dimensional Delaunay triangulation in High Performance Fortran (HPF) and in Message Passing Interface (MPI). Our parallelization algorithm performs subbl...
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This paper presents a visualization technique based on particle tracking. The technique consists in defining a set of points distributed on a closed surface and follow the surface deformations as the velocity field ch...
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(纸本)9780780372238
This paper presents a visualization technique based on particle tracking. The technique consists in defining a set of points distributed on a closed surface and follow the surface deformations as the velocity field changes in time. Deformations of the surface contains information about dynamics of the flow; in particular, it is possible to identify zones where flow stretching and foldings occur. Because the points on the surface are independent each other, it is possible to calculate the trajectory of each point concurrently. Two parallel algorithms are studied; the first one for a shared memory Origin 2000 supercomputer and the second one for a distributed memory PC cluster. The technique is applied to a fluid moving by natural convection inside a cubic container.
visualization of particle traces provides intuitive and efficient means for the exploration and analysis of complex vector fields. This paper presents a method suitable for the real-time visualization of arbitrarily l...
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(纸本)9780780372238
visualization of particle traces provides intuitive and efficient means for the exploration and analysis of complex vector fields. This paper presents a method suitable for the real-time visualization of arbitrarily large time-varying vector fields in virtual environments. We describe an out-of-core scheme in which two distinct pre-processing and rendering components enable real-time data streaming and visualization. The presented approach yields low-latency application start-up times and small memory footprints. The described system was used to implement a "volumetric fog lance," which can emit up to 60000 particles into a flow field while maintaining an interactive frame rate of 60 frames per second. All algorithms were specifically designed to support commodity hardware. The proof-of-concept system is running on a low-cost Linux workstation equipped with a 120GB E-IDE RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disk) system.
We have developed a prototype network switch, RHiNET-3/SW, for a RHiNET high-performance distributed parallel computing environment. It has eight I/O ports and each port provides high-speed, bi-directional 10-Gbit/s-p...
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(纸本)0769513573
We have developed a prototype network switch, RHiNET-3/SW, for a RHiNET high-performance distributed parallel computing environment. It has eight I/O ports and each port provides high-speed, bi-directional 10-Gbit/s-per-port parallel optical data transmission in a distance of over 300 m. The aggregate throughput is 80 Gbit/s per board. A switch consists of a one-chip CMOS ASIC 8x8 switch LSI (SW-LSI;a 784-pin BGA package), four deskew LSIs, and eight pairs of 1.25-Gbit/s x 12-channel optical interconnection modules on a single board. The switch uses a hop-by-hop retransmission mechanism and credit-based flow control to provide reliable and long-transmission-distance data communication. The deskew LSI has a skew compensation function for 10-bit paralleldata channels and an 8B10B encoder/decoder. Its optical transmitter modules use an 850-nm VCSEL and a 12-channel MMF (multi-mode fiber) ribbon. RHiNET-3/SW enables high-throughput, long-distance and flexible-flow-control network communication by means of distributed parallel computing using commercial PCs.
Improvements in hardware have recently made interactive ray tracing practical for some applications. However, when the scene complexity or rendering algorithm cost is high, the frame rate is too low in practice. Resea...
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(纸本)9780780372238
Improvements in hardware have recently made interactive ray tracing practical for some applications. However, when the scene complexity or rendering algorithm cost is high, the frame rate is too low in practice. Researchers have attempted to solve this problem by caching results from ray tracing and using these results in multiple frames via reprojection. However, the reprojection can become too slow when the number of samples that are reused is high, so previous systems have been limited to small images or a sparse set of computed pixels. To overcome this problem we introduce techniques to perform this reprojection in a scalable fashion on multiple processors.
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