Improvement in interactive remote in situ visualization using SIMD-aware function parser and asynchronous data I/O

Kawamura, Takuma; Idomura, Yasuhiro

Journal of Visualization, 23(4), p.695 - 706, 2020/08

https://doi.org/10.1007/s12650-020-00652-z

An in-situ visualization system based on the particle-based volume rendering offers a highly scalable and flexible visual analytics environment based on multivariate volume rendering. Although it showed excellent computational performance on the conventional CPU platforms, accelerated computation on the latest many core platforms revealed performance bottlenecks related to a function parser and particles I/O. In this paper, we develop a new SIMD-aware function parser and an asynchronous data I/O method based on task-based thread parallelization. Numerical experiments on the Oakforest-PACS, which consists of 8208 Intel Xeon Phi7250 (Knights Landing) processors, demonstrate an order of magnitude speedup with keeping improved strong scaling up to 100 k cores.