An application architecture for large data visualization: a case study

Author

Law, C.C. ; Henderson, Amy ; Ahrens, James

fYear

2001

fDate

23-23 Oct. 2001

Firstpage

125

Lastpage

159

Abstract

We present an open-source visualization application with a data-parallel application architecture. The architecture is unique because is uses the Tcl scripting language to synchronize the user interface with the Visualization ToolKit (VTK) parallel visualization pipeline and parallel-rendering module. The resulting application shows scalable performance, and is easily extendable because of its simple modular architecture. We demonstrate the application with a 9.8 gigabyte structured-grid ocean model.

Keywords

data visualisation; oceanography; parallel processing; pipeline processing; rendering (computer graphics); software packages; 9.8 Gbyte; Tcl scripting language; VTK parallel visualization pipeline and parallel-rendering module; Visualization ToolKit; data-parallel application architecture; large data visualization; modular architecture; open-source visualization application; scalable performance; structured-grid ocean model; user interface; Application software; Computational modeling; Computer aided software engineering; Data visualization; Geometry; Laboratories; Libraries; Oceans; Open source software; Pipelines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Large-Data Visualization and Graphics, 2001. Proceedings. IEEE 2001 Symposium on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7223-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVGS.2001.964413

Filename

964413