Visualizing large 3D geodesic grid data with massively distributed GPUs

Jinrong Xie, Hongfeng Yu, Kwan Liu Maz

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8 Scopus citations

Abstract

Geodesic grids become increasingly prevalent in large weather and climate applications. The deluge amount of simulation data demands efficient and scalable visualization capabilities for scientific exploration and understanding. Given the unique characteristics of geodesic grids, no current techniques can scalably visualize scalar fields defined on a geodesic grid. In this paper, we present a new parallel ray-casting algorithm for large geodesic grids using massively distributed GPUs. We construct a spherical quadtree to adaptively partition and distribute the data according to the grid resolution of simulation, and ensure a balanced workload assignment over a large number of processors from different view angles. We have designed and implemented the entire rendering pipeline based on the MPI and CUDA architecture, and demonstrated the effectiveness and scalability of our approach using an example of large application on a supercomputer with thousands of GPUs.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationIEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization 2014, LDAV 2014 - Proceedings
EditorsHank Childs, Hank Childs, Renato Pajarola, Venkatram Vishwanath
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages3-10
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781479952151
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 16 2014
Event4th IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization, LDAV 2014 - Paris, France
Duration: Oct 9 2014Oct 10 2014

Publication series

NameIEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization 2014, LDAV 2014 - Proceedings

Other

Other4th IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization, LDAV 2014
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period10/9/1410/10/14

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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