This paper presents two parallel I/O methods for the visualization of time-varying volume data in a high-performance computing environment. We discuss the interplay between the parallel renderer, I/O strategy, and fil...
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This paper presents two parallel I/O methods for the visualization of time-varying volume data in a high-performance computing environment. We discuss the interplay between the parallel renderer, I/O strategy, and file system, and show the results of our study on the performance of the I/O strategies with and without 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/Cornpaq AlphaServer operated at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center demonstrate that the I/O methods effectively remove the I/O bottlenecks commonly present in time-varying data visualization, and therefore help significantly lower interfrarne delay. This high-performance visualization solution allows scientists to explore their data in the temporal, spatial, and visualization domains at high resolution. Such new explorability, likely not presently available to most computational science groups, will help lead to many new insights into the modeled physical and chemical processes. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Molecular Dynamics simulations are an essential tool for many applications. The simulation of large molecules like proteins over long trajectories is of high importance e. g. for pharmaceutical, biochemical and medica...
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We present Galaxy, a fully asynchronous distributed parallel rendering engine geared towards using full global illumination for large-scale visualization. Galaxy provides performant distributed rendering of complex li...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538668733
We present Galaxy, a fully asynchronous distributed parallel rendering engine geared towards using full global illumination for large-scale visualization. Galaxy provides performant distributed rendering of complex lighting and material models, particularly those that require ray traversal across nodes. Our design is favorable for tightly-coupled in situ scenarios, where data remains on simulation nodes. By employing asynchronous framebuffer updates and a novel subtractive lighting model, we achieve acceptable image quality from the first ray generation, and improve quality throughout the render epoch. On simulated in situ rendering tasks, Galaxy outperforms the current best-of-breed scientific ray tracer by over 3x for distributed geometric and particle data, while providing expanded rendering capability for global illumination and complex materials.
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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ISBN:
(纸本)0780372239
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.
In exploratory scientific visualization, isosurfaces are typically created with an explicit polygonal representation for the surface using a technique such as Marching Cubes. For even moderate data sets, Marching Cube...
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Researchers have proposed many visualization tools that assist the development of parallel programs. A number of graph formalisms or notations - which we will call graph models - have been used to visualize various as...
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Researchers have proposed many visualization tools that assist the development of parallel programs. A number of graph formalisms or notations - which we will call graph models - have been used to visualize various aspects of parallel programs and their executions. This paper attempts to classify and compare these graph models which provide different information at different stages of parallel program development.
parallelising ray tracing with a data parallel approach allows rendering of arbitrarily large models, but the inherent load imbalances may lead to severe inefficiencies. To compensate for the uneven load distribution,...
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ISBN:
(纸本)1581132379
parallelising ray tracing with a data parallel approach allows rendering of arbitrarily large models, but the inherent load imbalances may lead to severe inefficiencies. To compensate for the uneven load distribution, demand-driven tasks may be split off and scheduled to processors that are less busy. We propose a hybrid scheduling algorithm which brings tasks and data together according to coherence between rays. The amount of demand-driven versus dataparallel tasks is a function of the coherence between rays and the amount of imbalance in the basic data-parallel load. Processing power, communication and memory are three resources which should be evenly used. Our current implementation is assessed against these requirements, showing good scalability and very little communication at the cost of a slightly larger memory overhead.
Large-scale visualization systems are typically designed to efficiently "push" datasets through the graphics hardware. However, exploratory visualization systems are increasingly expected to support scalable...
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This paper presents an approach for 3D reconstruction of X-ray tomographic images of coronal loops, observed on the solar atmosphere by the Japanese satellite Yohkoh. In this approach, the intermediate cross-sections ...
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This paper presents an approach for 3D reconstruction of X-ray tomographic images of coronal loops, observed on the solar atmosphere by the Japanese satellite Yohkoh. In this approach, the intermediate cross-sections images of the magnetic loop are generated with image morphing controlled by a Bezier curve in arc shape. Due to the high computational costs involved in the processing and visualization of solar images, a parallel application for 3D reconstruction of a coronal loop was implemented to execute in the Atlas parallel system. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
The proceedings contain 20 papers. The topics discussed include: a graph-based approach to symmetry detection;a survey of methods for moving least squares surfaces;parallel construction of k-nearest neighbor graphs fo...
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(纸本)9783905674125
The proceedings contain 20 papers. The topics discussed include: a graph-based approach to symmetry detection;a survey of methods for moving least squares surfaces;parallel construction of k-nearest neighbor graphs for point clouds;harmonic colormaps for volume visualization;stroke-based transfer function design;on accuracy of marching isosurfacing methods;isosurface ambient occlusion and soft shadows with filterable occlusion maps;multiresolution interval volume meshes;stereo pseudo 3D rendering for web-based display of scientific volumetric data;layers for effective volume rendering;GPU-based particle systems for illustrative volume rendering;interactive global light propagation in direct volume rendering using local piecewise integration;obscurance-based volume rendering framework;decomposition and visualization of fourth-order elastic-plastic tensors;and pseudorandom noise for real-time volumetric rendering of fire in a production system.
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