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Large Data Visualization on Distributed Memory Multi-GPU Clusters Thomas Fogal, Hank Childs, Siddharth Shankar, Jens Krüger, R. Daniel Bergeron, Philip Hatcher

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Large Data Visualization on Distributed Memory Multi-GPU Clusters. Thomas Fogal , Hank Childs, Siddharth Shankar, Jens Krüger, R. Daniel Bergeron, Philip Hatcher. Parallel Volume Rendering. Volume Rendering Scalability. Need lots of cores to render at acceptable speeds. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Large Data Visualization on Distributed Memory Multi-GPU Clusters

Large Data Visualization on Distributed Memory Multi-GPU Clusters

Thomas Fogal, Hank Childs, Siddharth Shankar, Jens Krüger, R. Daniel Bergeron, Philip Hatcher

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Parallel Volume Rendering

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• Need lots of cores to render at acceptable speeds

Volume Rendering Scalability

• Figure: Howison, Bethel, Childs, MPI-hybrid Parallelism for Volume Rendering on Large, Multi-core Systems, EGPGV 2010

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Longhorn

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Performance

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Brick Size NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800's

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Dynamic Load Balancing

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Load Balancing

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• "Adaptive mesh refinement" data

• some spatial regions have higher-resolution

• coarse/fine boundaries: sampling

• uneven load distribution

Future Work - AMR

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• Funding

• VACET

• CIBC

• C-SAFE

• MMCI (Saarland University)

• Resources

• TACC

• ORNL

• Open source communities: GLEW, Mesa, VisIt

• Anonymous reviewers

• You!

Thanks

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