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Visualization at the Leadership Computing Facility
Sean AhernScientific Computing
Center for Computational Sciences
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Statistical Analysis of Fusion Eddy FormationPrincipal Component Analysis allows isolation of rotational modes of eddy evolution
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Visualization of Neutron Density Fields Joint work between ORNL and Oxford University has developed a
model of nuclear matter in the transitional density region between inhomogeneous matter, containing nuclei and nucleons, and homogeneous matter, consisting of uniformly distributed nucleons, in collapsing stars.
We developed custom visualization techniques for analyzing the spatially varying distribution of nucleon densities.
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Statistics and Visualization for Climate SimulationVolume visualizations of the simulated time evolution of land and ocean components of atmospheric CO2 concentrations originating from the ocean surface were produced to help climate scientists examine the influence of climate variability, prescribed atmospheric CO2 levels, and land cover change on terrestrial carbon fluxes during the 20th century.
Data from Phase I of the CCSM LCF Computational Climate Science End Station (CCSES)
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EVEREST Facility 35 million pixel, 27-tile Powerwall 30’ x 8’ 14 NVIDIA 3000G GPUs Interactive, large-scale, collaborative data analysis Open source and custom software
DMX, Chromium, PixelBlaster, Blockbuster, etc.
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Title
Visualization Architectures for Tera/Petascale Visualization Largest datasets require use of institutional resources Reduces data movement issues Allows exploitation of multiple GPUs Provides visualization to remote users Exploited by VisIt, ParaView, EnSight
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Technology Curve Mismatches
Processor speeds (and FLOPS) are going up (60%/year)
Interconnect speeds are going up
Graphics card performance is going up (100%/year)
Increased computational ability won’t solve issues – can’t just ride processor speed curves
In some cases, users are not willing to move or post-process their data for visualization
Data Access Patterns are Important!
Memory-to-memory copy hasn’t kept up (5-10%/year)
Disk access time hasn’t kept up (5-10%/ year)
Increasing bottleneck to data processing
I/O can often be the most expensive phase of simulation or post-processing
Win Problems
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Summary and “Info-vis” techniques Increasing need to compare datasets
Parameter studies 2D/3D simulation correlations Direct visual comparison
often inadequate Different mesh types, codes
High-dimensional datasets arebecoming much more common
“Information-driven” interaction Contour spectrum Topology graphs/trees
Topology methods Distance fields Shape characterization
Information visualization techniques
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Chromium RenderServer
Remote image delivery OpenGL and X11 paths Collaborative Supports tiles Leverages:
Chromium VNC DMX
Small Business Technology Transfer program – DOE STTR
Render Server to Both Local and Remote Viewers
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Up and Coming Technologies…(and some already here)
Office “mini-clusters” Vendor-integrated
vis clusters Very high resolution
displays Sony 4K projector
Multi-GPU systems “Cell” processor “Commodity” constellations with GPUs
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Contact
Sean AhernScientific ComputingCenter for Computational Sciences(865) [email protected]
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