High performance visualization : enabling extreme-scale scientific insight /: enabling extreme-scale scientific insight. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by E. Wes Bethel, Hank Childs, Charles Hansen.
• Other Names: Bethel, E. Wes; Childs, Hank; Hansen, Charles
• Contents: Introduction, E. Wes Bethel ; Historical Perspective; Moore's Law and the Data Tsunami; Focus of this Book; Book Organization and Themes; Conclusion; ; I Distributed Memory Parallel Concepts and Systems; Parallel Visualization Frameworks, Hank Childs ; Introduction; Background; Parallelization Strategy; Usage; Advanced Processing Techniques; Conclusion; ; Remote and Distributed Visualization Architectures, E. Wes Bethel and Mark Miller ; Introduction; Visualization Performance Fundamentals and Networks; The Send-Images Partitioning; The Send-Data Partitioning; The Send-Geometry Partitioning; Hybrid and Adaptive Approaches; Which Pipeline Partitioning Works the Best?; Case Study: Visapult; Case Study: Chromium Renderserver; Case Study: VisIt and Dynamic Pipeline Reconfiguration; Conclusion; ; Rendering, Charles Hansen, E. Wes Bethel, Thiago Ize, and Carson Brownlee ; Introduction; Rendering Taxonomy; Rendering Geometry; Volume Rendering; Real-Time Ray Tracer for Visualization on a Cluster; Conclusion; ; Parallel Image Compositing Methods, Tom Peterka and Kwan-Liu Ma ; Introduction; Basic Concepts and Early Work in Compositing; Recent Advances; Results; Discussion and Conclusion; ; Parallel Integral Curves, David Pugmire, Tom Peterka, and Christoph Garth ; Introduction; Challenges to Parallelization; Approaches to Parallelization; Conclusion; ; II Advanced Processing Techniques; Query-Driven Visualization and Analysis, Oliver Rübel, E. Wes Bethel, Prabhat, and Kesheng Wu; Introduction; Data Subsetting and Performance; Formulating Multivariate Queries; Applications of Query-Driven Visualization; Conclusion; ; Progressive Data Access for Regular Grids, John Clyne ; Introduction; Preliminaries; Z-Order Curves; Wavelets; Further Reading; ; In Situ Processing, Hank Childs, Kwan-Liu Ma and Hongfeng Yu, Brad Whitlock, Jeremy Meredith, and Jean Favre, Scott Klasky and Norbert Podhorszki, Karsten Schwan and Matthew Wolf, Manish Parashar, and Fan Zhang; Introduction; Tailored Co-Processing at High Concurrency; Co-Processing with General Visualization Tools via Adaptors; Concurrent Processing; Service Oriented Architecture for data management in HPC; In Situ Analytics using Hybrid Staging; Conclusion; ; Streaming and Out-of-Core Methods, David E. DeMarle, Berk Geveci, Jon Woodring, and Jim Ahrens; External Memory Algorithms; Taxonomy of Streamed Visualization; Streamed Visualization Concepts; Survey of Current State-of-the-Art; Conclusion; ; III Advanced Architectural Challenges and Solutions; GPU-Accelerated Visualization, Marco Ament, Steffen Frey, Christoph Muller, Sebastian Grottel, Thomas Ertl, and Daniel Weiskopf ; Introduction; Programmable Graphics Hardware; GPU-Accelerated Volume Rendering; Particle-Based Rendering; GPGPU High Performance Environments; Large Display Visualization; ; Hybrid Parallelism, E. Wes Bethel, David Camp, Hank Childs, Chistoph Garth, Mark Howison, Kenneth I. Joy, and Dave Pugmire ; Introduction; Hybrid Parallelism and Volume Rendering; Hybrid Parallelism and Integral Curve Calculation; Conclusion and Future Work; ; Visualization at Extreme-Scale Concurrency, Hank Childs, David Pugmire, Sean Ahern, Brad Whitlock, Mark Howison, Prabhat, Gunther Weber, and E. Wes Bethel ; Overview|Pure Parallelism; Massive Data Experiments; Scaling Experiments; Pitfalls at Scale; Conclusion; ; Performance Optimization and Autotuning, E. Wes Bethel and Mark Howison ; Introduction; Optimizing Performance of a Three-Dimensional Stencil Operator on the GPU; Optimizing Raycasting Volume Rendering on Multi-Core GPUs and Many-Core GPUs; Conclusion; ; The Path to Exascale, Sean Ahern ; Introduction; Future System Architectures; Science Understanding Needs at the Exascale; Research Directions; Conclusion and the Path Forward; ; IV High Performance Visualization Implementations; VisIt: An End-User Tool for Visualizing and Analyzing Very Large Data, Hank Childs, Eric Brugger, Brad Whitlock, Jeremy Meredith, Sean Ahern, David Pugmire, Kathleen Bonnell, Mark Miller, Cyrus Harrison, Gunther HWeber, Hari Krishnan, Thomas Fogal, Allen Sanderson, Christoph Garth, EWes Bethel, David Camp, Oliver Rubel, Marc Durant, Jean MFavre, and Paul Navrátil; Introduction; Focal Points; Design; Successes; Future Challenges; Conclusion; ; IceT, Kenneth Moreland ; Introduction; Motivation; Implementation; Application Programming Interface; Conclusion; ; The ParaView Visualization Application, Utkarsh Ayachit, Berk Geveci, Kenneth Moreland, John Patchett, and Jim Ahrens; Introduction; Understanding the Need; The ParaView Framework; Parallel Data Processing; The ParaView Application; Customizing with Plug-ins and Custom Applications; Co-processing: In Situ Visualization and Data Analysis; ParaViewWeb: Interactive Visualization for the Web; ParaView In Use; .Conclusion; ; The ViSUS Visualization Framework, Valerio Pascucci, Giorgio Scorzelli, Brian Summa, Peer-Timo Bremer, Attila Gyulassy, Cameron Christensen, Sujin Philip, and Sidharth Kumar ; Introduction; ViSUS Software Architecture; Applications; ; The VAPOR Visualization Application, Alan Norton and John Clyne ; Introduction; Progressive Data Access; Visualization-Guided Analysis; Progressive Access Examination; Discussion; Conclusion; ; The EnSight Visualization Application, Randall Frank and Michael F. Krogh ; Introduction; EnSight Architectural Overview; Cluster Abstraction: CEIShell; Advanced Rendering; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Index;
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 006.6; Science -- Methodology; Visualization -- Technique; High performance computing; Science -- Data processing; Information visualization; Imaging systems
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781439875735; 1439875731
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