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libIS: a lightweight library for flexible in transit visualization

Conference · · ISAV 2018: In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-scale Analysis and Visualization
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  1. University of Utah and Intel Corporation; University of Utah
  2. Argonne National Laboratory
  3. Intel Corporation and Now with Nvidia
  4. Intel Corporation
  5. University of Utah
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As simulations grow in scale, the need for in situ analysis methods to handle the large data produced grows correspondingly. One desirable approach to in situ visualization is in transit visualization. By decoupling the simulation and visualization code, in transit approaches alleviate common difficulties with regard to the scalability of the analysis, ease of integration, usability, and impact on the simulation. We present libIS, a lightweight, flexible library which lowers the bar for using in transit visualization. Our library works on the concept of abstract regions of space containing data, which are transferred from the simulation to the visualization clients upon request, using a client-server model. We also provide a SENSEI analysis adaptor, which allows for transparent deployment of in transit visualization. We demonstrate the flexibility of our approach on batch analysis and interactive visualization use cases on different HPC resources.

Research Organization:
University of Utah
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
DOE Contract Number:
NA0002375
OSTI ID:
1608433
Journal Information:
ISAV 2018: In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-scale Analysis and Visualization, Journal Name: ISAV 2018: In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-scale Analysis and Visualization
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Related Subjects

97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
In Transit Visualization
Scientific Visualization
SENSI