Extreme scaling of production visualization software on diverse architectures

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 22-31

  Childs, Hank ^a   Pugmire, David ^b   Ahern, Sean ^b   Whitlock, Brad ^c   Howison, M ^a   Prabhat, ^a   Weber, Gunther H ^a   Bethel, E Wes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer graphics; Dawn; Denovo; Graphics and multimedia; I O performance; Interprocess communication; Many core processing; Petascale computing; Pure parallelism; Very large data sets; VisIt; Visualization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA HANDLING; DATA VISUALIZATION;

CORE PROCESSING; DAWN; DENOVO; GRAPHICS AND MULTIMEDIAS; I/O PERFORMANCE; INTERPROCESS COMMUNICATION; LARGE DATASETS; MANY-CORE; MANY-CORE PROCESSING; PERFORMANCE; PETA-SCALE COMPUTING; PURE PARALLELISM; VERY LARGE DATA SET; VERY LARGE DATUM; VISIT;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 77951812429     PISSN: 02721716     EISSN: None     Source Type: None    
DOI: 10.1109/MCG.2010.51     Document Type: Article

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