Visualizing very large-scale earthquake simulations

Proceedings of the 2003 ACM/IEEE Conference on Supercomputing, SC 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Ma, Kwan Liu ^a   Stompel, Aleksander ^a   Bielak, Jacobo ^b   Ghattas, Omar ^b   Kim, Eui Joong ^b  

^a University of California Davis   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

earthquake modeling; high performance computing; massively parallel supercomputing; parallel rendering; scientific visualization; time varying data; unstructured grids; volume rendering; wave propagation

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MODELING; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; MASSIVELY PARALLEL SUPERCOMPUTING; PARALLEL RENDERING; TIME-VARYING DATA; UNSTRUCTURED GRID;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA VISUALIZATION; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 84877086727     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1048935.1050198     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (25)

1. AHRENS, J., AND PAINTER, J. Efficient sortlast rendering using compression-based image compositing. In Proceedings of the 2nd Eurographics Workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (1998), pp. 145-151.
2. BAO, H., BIELAK, J., GHATTAS, O., KALLIVOKAS, L. F., O'HALLARON, D. R., SHEWCHUK, J. R., AND XU, J. Large-scale simulation of elastic wave propagation in heterogeneous media on parallel computers. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 152, 1-2 (Jan. 1998), 85-102.
3. BAO, H., BIELAK, J., GHATTAS, O., O'HALLARON, D. R., KALLIVOKAS, L. F., SHEWCHUK, J. R., AND XU, J. Earthquake ground motion modeling on parallel computers. In Supercomputing '96 (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Nov. 1996).
4. BETHEL, W., TIERNEY, B., LEE, J., GUNTER, D., AND LAU, S. Using high-speed wans and network data caches to enable remote and distributed visualization. In Proceedings of Supercomputing 2C00 (November 2000).
5. CHEN, L., FUJISHIRO, I., AND NAKAJIMA, K. Parallel performance optimization of large-scale unstructured data visualization for the earth simulator. In Proceedings of the Fourth Eurographics Workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (2002), pp. 133-140.
6. GARCIA, A., AND SHEN, H.-W. Asynchronous rendering for time-varying volume datasets on pc clusters. In Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization 2003 Conference (to appear) (October 2003).
7. HSU, W. M. Segmented ray casting for data parallel volume rendering. In Proceedings of 1993 Parallel Rendering Symposium (1993), pp. 7-14.
8. LEE, T.-Y., RAGHAVENDRA, C. S., AND NICHOLAS, J. B. Image composition schemes for sort-last polygon rendering on 2d mesh multicomputers. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2, 3 (1996), 202-217.
9. LI, P., WHITMAN, S., MENDOZA, R., AND TSIAO, J. ParVox - a parallel spaltting volume rendering system for distributed visualization. In Proceedings of 1997 Symposium on Parallel Rendering (1997), pp. 7-14.
10. LUM, E., MA, K.-L., AND CLYNE, J. A hardware-assisted scalable solution for interactive volume rendering of time-varying data. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 8, 3 (2002), 286-301.
11. MA, K.-L. Parallel volume ray-casting for unstructured-grid data on distributed-memory architectures. In Proceedings of the Parallel Rendering '95 Symposium (1995), pp. 23-30. Atlanta, Georgia, October 30-31.
12. MA, K.-L. Parallel rendering of 3D AMR data on the SGI/Cray T3E. In Proceedings of the 7th Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation (1999), pp. ?-?
13. MA, K.-L. Visualizing time-varying volume data. IEEE Computing in Science & Engineering 5, 2 (2003), 34-42.
14. MA, K.-L., AND CAMP, D. High performance visualization of time-varying volume data over a wide-area network. In Proceedings of Supercomputing 2000 Conference (November 2000).
15. MA, K.-L., AND CROCKETT, T. A scalable parallel cell-projection volume rendering algorithm for three-dimensional unstructured data. In Proceedings of 1997 Symposium on Parallel Rendering (1997), pp. 95-104.
16. MA, K.-L., AND CROCKETT, T. Parallel visualization of large-scale aerodynamics calculations: A case study on the cray t3e. In Proceedings of 1999 IEEE Parallel Visualization and Graphics Symposium (1999), pp. 15-20.
17. MA, K.-L., PAINTER, J. S., HANSEN, C., AND KROGH, M. Parallel Volume Rendering Using Binary-Swap Compositing. IEEE Computer Graphics Applications 14, 4 (July 1994), 59-67.
18. MCPHERSON, A., AND MALTRUD, M. Poptex: Interactive ocean model visualization using texture mapping hardware. In Proceedings of the Visualization '98 Conference (October 18-23 1998), pp. 471-474.
19. NEUMANN, U. Communication costs for parallel volume-rendering algorithms. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 14, 4 (July 1994), 49-58.
20. PARKER, S., PARKER, M., LIVNAT, Y., SLOAN, P., AND HANSEN, C. Interactive Ray Tracing for Volume Visualization. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 5, 3 (July-September 1999), 1-13.
21. The Quake project, Carnegie Mellon University and San Diego State University. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~quake.
22. STOMPEL, A., LUM, E., AND MA, K.-L. Visualization of multidimensional, multivariate volume data using hardware-accelerated non-photorealistic rendering techniques. In Proceedings of Pacific Graphics 2002 Conference (2002), pp. 394-402.
23. STOMPEL, A., MA, K.-L., LUM, E., AHRENS, J., AND PATCHETT, J. SLIC: scheduled linear image compositing for parallel volume rendering. In Proceedings of IEEE Sympoisum on Parallel and Large-Data Visualization and Graphics (to appear) (October 2003).
24. TU, T., O'HALLARON, D., AND LOPEZ, J. Etree: A database-oriented method for generating large octree meshes. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Meshing Roundtable (September 2002), pp. 127-138.
25. WYLIE, B., PAVLAKOS, C., LEWIS, V., AND MORELAND, K. Scalable rendering on PC clusters. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 21, 4 (July/August 2001), 62-70.