Large Data Visualization

To solve the large data problem, we have been experimenting with several different approaches including multiresolution representations, parallel rendering, hybrid rendering, meshless methods, and out-of-core methods.

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Publications

1. "Visualizing Large-Scale Earthquake Simulations", with A. Stompel, J. Bielak, O. Ghattas, and E. Kim, to appear in Proceedings of the Supercomputing 2003 Conference, November 15-21.
   
   
2. "Visualizing Time-Varying Volume Data", K.-L. Ma, IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering, Volume 5, Number 3, March/April 2003, pp. 34-42.
   
   
3. "Advanced Visualization Technology for Terascale Particle Accelerator Simulations", with G. Schussman, B. Wilson, K. Ko, J. Qiang, and R. Ryne, to appear Supercomputing 2002 Conference, November 16-22, Baltimore, MD
   
   
4. "A Hardware-Assisted Hybrid Rendering Technique for Interactive Volume Visualization", with B. Wilson and P. McCormick, to appear Proceedings of Volume Visualization and Graphics Symposium 2002
   
   
5. "Scalable Self-Orienting Surfaces: A Compact, Texture-Enhanced Representation for Interactive Visualization Of 3D Vector Fields", with G. Schussman, to appear Proceedings of Pacific Graphics 2002
   
   
6. "A Hardware-Assisted Scalable Solution for Interactive Volume Rendering of Time-Varying Data", with E. Lum and J. Clyne, to appear IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2002
   
   
7. "Hardware-Accelerated Parallel Non-Photorealistic Volume Rendering", with E. Lum, to appear International Symposium on Nonphotorealistic Rendering and Animation, June 3-5, 2002
   
   
8. "Interactive Visualization of Particle Beams for Accelerator Design", with B. Wilson, J. Qiang, and R. Ryne, to appear ICCS 2002 Workshop on High Performance Computing in Particle Accelerator Science and Technology, April 21-24, 2002
   
   
9. "Next Generation Visual Supercomputing using PC Clusters with Volume Graphics Hardware Devices", with S. Muraki et al., Supercomputing 2001 Conference, November 11-16, 2001
   
   
10. "Texture Hardware Assisted Rendering of Time-Varying Volume Data", with E. Lum and J. Clyne, IEEE Visualization 2001 Conference, October 21-26, 2001
    
    
11. "Visualization Techniques for Time-Varying Volume Data", with E. Lum, CAD/Graphics 2001, August 22-24, 2001
    
    
12. "Massively Parallel Software Rendering for Visualizing Large-Scale Data Sets", with S. Parker, IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, July/August 2001, pp. 72-83
    
    
13. "A Parallel Volume Rendering System using Space Partition and Ray Splitting", with M. Ogata, et al., the Journal of the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers, 55(7), July 2001 (in Japanese).
    
    
14. Multiresolution View-Dependent Splat Based Volume Rendering of Large Irregular Data, with J. Meredith, Parallel and Large Data Visualization Symposium, October 22-23, 2001
    
    
15. "High Performance Visualization of Time-Varying Volume Data over a Wide-Area Network", with D. Camp, Supercomputing 2000 Conference, Dallas, TX, November 4-10, 2000
    
    
16. "Multi-threaded Rendering Unstructured-Grid Volume Data on the SGI Origin 2000", with C. Hofsetz, in Proceedings of 3rd Eurographics Workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualization, Girona, EU, September 28-29, 2000.
    
    
17. "Compression and Accelered Rendering of Time-Varying Volume Datasets", with H.-W. Shen, Workshop on Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality, 2000 International Computer Symposium, Taiwan, December 6-8, 2000
    
    
18. "Parallel Visualization of Large-Scale Aerodynamic Calculations: A Case Study on T3E", with T. Crockett, in Proceedings of 1999 Parallel Visualization and Graphics Symposium, October 1999.
    
    
19. "Parallel Rendering of 3D AMR Data on the SGI/Cray T3E", the 7th Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation, Annapolis, Maryland, February 21-25, 1999.
    
    
20. "A Fast Volume Rendering Algorithm for Time-varying Fields Using a Time-Space Partition (TSP) Tree", with H.-W. Shen and L.-J. Chiang, in Proceedings of Visualization '99 Conference, October 1999.
    
    
21. "Fast Retrieval of Disk-Resident Unstructured Volume Data for Visualization", with Scott Leutenegger, in Proceedings of the DIMACS Workshop on External Memory Algorithms and Visualization, Piscataway, NJ, May 20-22, 1998
    
    
22. "Out-of-core Streamline Visualization on Large Unstructured Meshes," with S. Ueng and K. Sikorski, IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 3 Number 4, December 1997
    
    
23. "A Scalable, Cell-Projection Volume Rendering Algorithm for 3D Unstructured Data", with Tom Crockett, in Proceedings of 1997 IEEE Symposium on Parallel Rendering, October 1997, pp. 95-104.
    
    
24. "Interactive Exploration of Large 3-D Unstructured-Grid Data," with Scott Leutenegger and Dimitri Mavriplis, ICASE Report No. 96-63, October 1996.
    
    
25. Parallel Volume Ray-Casting for Unstructured-Grid Data on Distributed-Memory Architectures, in Proceedings of 1995 Parallel Rendering Symposium, October 30-31, 1995, pp. 23-30.
    
    
26. "Fast Algorithms for Visualizing Fluid Motion in Steady Flow on Unstructured Grids," with S.K. Ueng and K. Sikorski, in Proceedings of the Visualization '95 Conference, Octorber, 1995.
    
    
27. "Runtime Volume Visualization of Parallel CFD", in Proceedings of the Parallel CFD '95 Conference.
    
    
28. "Parallel Volume Rendering Using Binary-Swap Compositing", with J. Painter, C. Hansen and M. Krogh, IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, Volume 14, Number 4, July 1994, pp. 59-68.