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High Performance Computing on Vector Systems 2006 pp 69–87Cite as

Visualization: Insight on Your Work

Real-time and Large-scale Visualization

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Visualization is an important part of numerous simulation workflows. It helps users intuitively discover artifacts in their data, because it directly makes use of one of human’s fundamental sense: “vision”. Also, it does not require as much effort as raw data analysis. There are several usable workflows depending on current needs, each one using a different visualization approach. With the increasing power of computation machines, now easily reaching the teraflops barrier, the amount of data to handle might be a bottleneck for commodity rendering hardware. Visualization therefore needs specific tools in order to cope with this issue. This paper provides an overview on the different workflows with their strengths and weaknesses as well as their best usage. It will also focus on concrete examples of large-scale visualization and finally present one application suited for a particular workflow.

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  1. HPC Marketing Promotion Division, NEC Corporation, 1-10, Nisshin-cho, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo, 183-8501, Japan

    Pascal Kleijer

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  1. Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart (HLRS), Universität Stuttgart, Nobelstraße 19, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Michael Resch , Thomas Bönisch  & Sunil Tiyyagura ,  & 

  2. NEC Corporation, Nisshin-cho 1-10, 183-8501, Tokyo, Japan

    Toshiyuki Furui

  3. NEC Corporation, Shimonumabe 1753, 211-8666, Kanagawa, Japan

    Yoshiki Seo

  4. NEC High Performance Computing, Europe GmbH, Prinzenallee 11, 40459, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Wolfgang Bez

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Kleijer, P. (2007). Visualization: Insight on Your Work. In: Resch, M., Bönisch, T., Tiyyagura, S., Furui, T., Seo, Y., Bez, W. (eds) High Performance Computing on Vector Systems 2006. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68743-6_5

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