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Fostering Remote Visualization: Experiences in Two Different HPC Sites

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High Performance Computing (CARLA 2020)

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Visualization of scientific data is crucial for scientific discovery to gain insight into the results of simulations and experiments. Remote visualization is of crucial importance to access infrastructure, data and computational resources and, to avoid data movement from where data is produced and to where data will be analyzed. Remote visualization enables geographically diverse collaboration and enhances user experience through graphical user interfaces. This paper presents two approaches deployed by two different HPC centers: The SC3 - Supercomputación y Cálculo Científico Center in Colombia and the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility in USA. We overview our remote visualization experiences, adopted technologies, use cases, and challenges encountered. Our contribution is to signal the commonality between approaches in terms of the end goal, showing their fitness for their contexts, while not focusing only on attempting to provide a general picture of remote visualization, given the differences between centers in terms of purposes, needs, resources, and national impact.

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    A research complex aimed to increase R&D+i in the region.

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    RENATA, Red Nacional Académica de Tecnología Avanzada (Academic National Advanced Technology Network): the computer network is named after the organization. https://www.renata.edu.co/.

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    https://youtu.be/0nremmyPyG0, https://youtu.be/q6vmgYbVhe0.

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Acknowledgments

This research partially used resources of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported under Contract DE-AC05-00OR22725. SIGHT’s datasets provided by OLCF INCITE 2017–2019 “Petascale Simulations of Short Pulse Laser Interaction with Metals” PI Leonid Zhigilei, University of Virginia. This research also used resources from Supercomputación y Cálculo Científico (SC3), a High Performance Computing Centre at Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS), Colombia. The funding came from Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Extensión (VIE), the Research unit of UIS.

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  2. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA

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Cortés, S.A.G., Bernal, C.A., Barrios, C.J., Hernández, B. (2021). Fostering Remote Visualization: Experiences in Two Different HPC Sites. In: Nesmachnow, S., Castro, H., Tchernykh, A. (eds) High Performance Computing. CARLA 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1327. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68035-0_2

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