Ultrascale Visualization Workshop 2012

The output from leading-edge scientific simulations is so voluminous and complex that advanced visualization techniques are necessary to interpret the calculated results. Even though visualization technology has progressed significantly in recent years, we are barely capable of exploiting petascale data to its full extent, and exascale datasets are on the horizon.

This workshop aims at addressing this pressing issue by fostering communication between visualization researchers and the users of visualization. Attendees will be introduced to the latest and greatest research innovations in large data visualization, and also learn how these innovations impact scientific supercomputing and discovery process.

Workshop Chairs

Technical Program

Previous Workshops


Kwan-Liu Ma	Venkatram Vishwanath	Hongfeng Yu

Co-sponsered by:

IEEE Computer Society
ACM SIGARCH
DOE SciDAC Program
NSF PetaApps Program

9:00 - 9:15	Opening, Venkatram Vishwanath, Argonne National Laboratory [slides]
9:15 - 10:00	Large Scale Biomedical Visualization Chris Johnson (invited), University of Utah [slides]
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee Break
	Session Chair: Hongfeng Yu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
10:30 - 11:00	An Analysis of a Distributed GPU Implementation of Proton Computed Tomographic (pCT) Reconstruction Kirk Duffin (invited), Northern Illinois University [slides]
11:00 - 11:30	Stochastic Approach for Integrated Rendering of Volumes and Semi-transparent surfaces Naohisa Sakamoto, Kyoto University, Japan [slides]
11:30-12:00	Meshing the Universe: Integrating Analysis in Cosmological Simulations Tom Peterka (invited), Argonne National Laboratory [slides]
12:00 - 1:30	Lunch
	Session Chair: Tom Peterka, Argonne National Laboratory
1:30 - 2:00	Feature-Based Analysis of Large Scale Scientific Data Timo Bremer (invited), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
2:00 - 2:30	Scalable Visual Queries for Data Exploration on Large, High-Resolution 3D Displays Khairi Reda, University of Illinois at Chicago [slides]
2:30 - 3:00	Visualization and Post-Processing of Large Scale Engineering Applications Earl Duque (invited), Intelligent Light
3:00 - 3:30	Coffee break
	Session Chair: Janine Bennett, Sandia National Laboratories
3:30 - 4:00	The SDAV Software Frameworks for Visualization and Analysis on Next-Generation Multi-core Architectures Chris Sewell (invited), Los Alamos National Laboratory [slides]
4:00 - 4:30	Load Balanced Parallel GPU Out-of-Core for Continuous LOD Model Visualization Chao Peng, Virginia Tech. [slides]
4:30 - 5:00	Oh, $#@! Exascale!: The effect of emerging architectures on scientific discovery Ken Moreland* (invited), Sandia National Laboratories. [slides]
5:00 - 5:30	Discussion