ICCS 2008: Keynote abstract – Hank Childs
Why Petascale Visualization and Analysis will Change the Rules
Hank Childs
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA
Abstract:
In the last decade, supercomputers and the scientific simulations performed
on them have dramatically increased in size. Currently, simulations can use
hundreds of TeraFLOPs (trillions of floating point operations per second)
and generate many, many terabytes of data. In the near future, we will see
PetaFLOP computing and petabytes of data. In addition, a critical step in
the simulation process is "postprocessing": applying visualization and
analysis techniques to better understand the simulation. As a result, the
issues of visualizing and analyzing massive data sets have never been more
important. This puts the spotlight on two key issues. One, are we prepared
for the unprecedented scale of data that we will need to postprocess? And,
two, assuming that we can handle data of this size, can we intelligently
analyze these simulations? I will argue that, for both of these questions,
we must "change the rules" and make dramatic departures from our current
modus operandi.
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