An application architecture for large data visualization: a case study

  • Authors:
  • C. Charles Law;Amy Henderson;James Ahrens

  • Affiliations:
  • Kitware Incorporated;Kitware Incorporated;Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Venue:
  • PVG '01 Proceedings of the IEEE 2001 symposium on parallel and large-data visualization and graphics
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

In this case study we present an open-source visualization application with a data-parallel novel application architecture. The architecture is unique because is uses the Tcl scripting language to synchronize the user interface with the 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.