DocumentCode :
1411950
Title :
Visualization at Supercomputing Centers: The Tale of Little Big Iron and the Three Skinny Guys
Author :
Bethel, E. Wes ; van Rosendale, J. ; Southard, D. ; Gaither, K. ; Childs, H. ; Brugger, E. ; Ahern, S.
Author_Institution :
Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab., Berkeley, CA, USA
Volume :
31
Issue :
1
fYear :
2011
Firstpage :
90
Lastpage :
95
Abstract :
Supercomputing centers are unique resources that aim to enable scientific knowledge discovery by employing large computational resources-the "Big Iron." Design, acquisition, installation, and management of the Big Iron are carefully planned and monitored. Because these Big Iron systems produce a tsunami of data, it\´s natural to colocate the visualization and analysis infrastructure. This infrastructure consists of hardware (Little Iron) and staff (Skinny Guys). Our collective experience suggests that design, acquisition, installation, and management of the Little Iron and Skinny Guys doesn\´t receive the same level of treatment as that of the Big Iron. This article explores the following questions about the Little Iron: How should we size the Little Iron to adequately support visualization and analysis of data coming off the Big Iron? What sort of capabilities must it have? Related questions concern the size of visualization support staff: How big should a visualization program be-that is, how many Skinny Guys should it have? What should the staff do? How much of the visualization should be provided as a support service, and how much should applications scientists be expected to do on their own?
Keywords :
computer centres; data visualisation; big iron system; supercomputing centers; visualization; visualization program; visualization support staff; Computational modeling; Data visualization; Hardware; Software; Visualization; computer graphics; data visualization and analysis; graphics and multimedia; supercomputing centers; visualization;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
0272-1716
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/MCG.2011.13
Filename :
5675632
Link To Document :
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