Dax toolkit: A proposed framework for data analysis and visualization at extreme scale

Kenneth Moreland, Utkarsh Ayachit, Berk Geveci, Kwan Liu Ma

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

37 Scopus citations

Abstract

Experts agree that the exascale machine will comprise processors that contain many cores, which in turn will necessitate a much higher degree of concurrency. Software will require a minimum of a 1,000 times more concurrency. Most parallel analysis and visualization algorithms today work by partitioning data and running mostly serial algorithms concurrently on each data partition. Although this approach lends itself well to the concurrency of current high-performance computing, it does not exhibit the appropriate pervasive parallelism required for exascale computing. The data partitions are too small and the overhead of the threads is too large to make effective use of all the cores in an extreme-scale machine. This paper introduces a new visualization framework designed to exhibit the pervasive parallelism necessary for extreme scale machines. We demonstrate the use of this system on a GPU processor, which we feel is the best analog to an exascale node that we have available today.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication1st IEEE Symposium on Large-Scale Data Analysis and Visualization 2011, LDAV 2011 - Proceedings
Pages97-104
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event1st IEEE Symposium on Large-Scale Data Analysis and Visualization 2011, LDAV 2011 - Providence, RI, United States
Duration: Oct 23 2011Oct 24 2011

Publication series

Name1st IEEE Symposium on Large-Scale Data Analysis and Visualization 2011, LDAV 2011 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference1st IEEE Symposium on Large-Scale Data Analysis and Visualization 2011, LDAV 2011
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityProvidence, RI
Period10/23/1110/24/11

Keywords

  • D.1.3 [Software]: Programming Techniques - Concurrent Programming

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Dax toolkit: A proposed framework for data analysis and visualization at extreme scale'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this