Visualizing an Exascale Data Center Digital Twin: Considerations, Challenges and Opportunities

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Abstract

Digital twins are an excellent tool to model, visualize, and simulate complex systems, to understand and optimize their operation. In this work, we present the technical challenges of real-time visualization of a digital twin of the Frontier supercomputer.We show the initial prototype and current state of the twin and highlight technical design challenges of visualizing such a large High Performance Computing (HPC) system. The goal is to understand the use of augmented reality as a primary way to extract information and collaborate on digital twins of complex systems. This leverages the spatio-temporal aspect of a 3D representation of a digital twin, with the ability to view historical and real-time telemetry, triggering simulations of a system state and viewing the results, which can be augmented via dashboards for details. Finally, we discuss considerations and opportunities for augmented reality of digital twins of large-scale, parallel computers.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2024 IEEE Visualization Conference - Short Papers, VIS 2024
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages21-25
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9798350354850
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024
Event2024 IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics Conference, VIS 2024 - St. Pete Beach, United States
Duration: Oct 13 2024Oct 18 2024

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2024 IEEE Visualization Conference - Short Papers, VIS 2024

Conference

Conference2024 IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics Conference, VIS 2024
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySt. Pete Beach
Period10/13/2410/18/24

Keywords

  • Augmented Reality
  • Data Center
  • Digital Twin
  • Information Representation
  • Massively Parallel Systems
  • Operational Data Analytics
  • Simulation

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