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Woodring, Jonathan

Publications and source records attributed to Woodring, Jonathan.

3 records

DOE OSTI2024

The ECP ALPINE project: In situ and post hoc visualization infrastructure and analysis capabilities for exascale

A significant challenge on an exascale computer is the speed at which we compute results exceeds by many orders of magnitude the speed at which we save these results. Therefore the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) ALPINE project focuses on providing exascale-ready visualization solutions including in situ processing. In situ visualization and analysis runs as the simulation is run, on simulations results are they are generated avoiding the need to save entire simulations to storage for later analysis. The ALPINE project made post hoc visualization tools, ParaView and VisIt, exascale ready and developed in situ algorithms and infrastructures. The suite of ALPINE algorithms developed under ECP includes novel approaches to enable automated data analysis and visualization to focus on the most important aspects of the simulation. Many of the algorithms also provide data reduction benefits to meet the I/O challenges at exascale. ALPINE developed a new lightweight in situ infrastructure, Ascent.

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DOE OSTI2018

Data Reduction Techniques for Simulation, Visualization and Data Analysis

Data reduction is increasingly being applied to scientific data for numerical simulations, scientific visualizations, and data analyses. It is most often used to lower I/O and storage costs, and sometimes to lower in-memory data size as well. With this work, we consider five categories of data reduction techniques based on their information loss: 1) truly lossless, 2) near lossless, 3) lossy, 4) mesh reduction, and 5) derived representations. We then survey available techniques in each of these categories, summarize their properties from a practical point of view, and discuss relative merits within a category. We believe, in total, this work will enable simulation scientists and visualization/data analysis scientists to decide which data reduction techniques will be most helpful for their needs.

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DOE OSTI2018

Cinema Toolkit

Cinema is a workflow and toolkit for capturing, storing and exploring extreme scale scientific data. It is a highly interactive image-based approach to data analysis and exploration that promotes investigation of large scientific datasets, and is easily integrated into existing workflows through extensions to widely used open source tools. In short, many different images of the dataset are captured and stored in a database, along with metadata describing the images. This provides a method of exploration that is unlike other current methods. This novel approach supports interactive exploration of a wide range of results, while still significantly reducing data movement and storage. The Cinema toolkit includes database specifications and software such as database writers, database viewers, algorithms and other support software that enable a wide variety of applications to write, operate on, and view Cinema databases.

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