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An Approach to Lowering the In Situ Visualization Barrier

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ISAV2015: Proceedings of the First Workshop on In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-Scale Analysis and Visualization

Pages 7 - 12

https://doi.org/10.1145/2828612.2828618

Published: 15 November 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Coupling visualization and analysis software with simulation code is a resource-intensive task. As the usage of simulation-based science grows, we asked ourselves: what would it take to enable in situ visualization for every simulation in existence? This paper presents an alternative view focusing on the approachability of in situ visualization. Utilizing a number of techniques from the program analysis community and taking advantage of commonalities in scientific software, we find that we can vastly reduce the time investment required to achieve visualization-enabled simulations.

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Bauer AAbbasi HAhrens JChilds HGeveci BKlasky SMoreland KO'Leary PVishwanath VWhitlock BBethel E(2016)In Situ Methods, Infrastructures, and Applications on High Performance Computing PlatformsComputer Graphics Forum10.5555/3071534.307159035:3(577-597)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3071534.3071590
Bauer AAbbasi HAhrens JChilds HGeveci BKlasky SMoreland KO'Leary PVishwanath VWhitlock BBethel E(2016) In Situ Methods, Infrastructures, and Applications on High Performance Computing Platforms Computer Graphics Forum10.1111/cgf.1293035:3(577-597)Online publication date: 4-Jul-2016
https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12930

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An Approach to Lowering the In Situ Visualization Barrier
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ISAV2015: Proceedings of the First Workshop on In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-Scale Analysis and Visualization

November 2015

51 pages

ISBN:9781450340038

DOI:10.1145/2828612

Publications Chair:
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

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Bauer AAbbasi HAhrens JChilds HGeveci BKlasky SMoreland KO'Leary PVishwanath VWhitlock BBethel E(2016)In Situ Methods, Infrastructures, and Applications on High Performance Computing PlatformsComputer Graphics Forum10.5555/3071534.307159035:3(577-597)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3071534.3071590
Bauer AAbbasi HAhrens JChilds HGeveci BKlasky SMoreland KO'Leary PVishwanath VWhitlock BBethel E(2016) In Situ Methods, Infrastructures, and Applications on High Performance Computing Platforms Computer Graphics Forum10.1111/cgf.1293035:3(577-597)Online publication date: 4-Jul-2016
https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12930

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