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SCHEDULE: NOV 10-16, 2012

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Data-Intensive Spatial Filtering in Large Numerical Simulation Datasets

SESSION: Visualization and Analysis of Massive Data Sets

EVENT TYPE: Papers

TIME: 2:00PM - 2:30PM

SESSION CHAIR: Hank Childs

AUTHOR(S):Kalin Kanov, Randal Burns, Greg Eyink, Charles Meneveau, Alexander Szalay

ROOM:355-D

ABSTRACT:
We present a query processing framework for the efficient evaluation of spatial filters on large numerical simulation datasets stored in a data-intensive cluster. Previously, filtering of large numerical simulations stored in scientific databases has been impractical owing to the immense data requirements. Rather, filtering is done during simulation or by loading snapshots into the aggregate memory of an HPC cluster. Our system performs filtering within the database and supports large filter widths. We present two complementary methods of execution: I/O streaming computes a batch filter query in a single sequential pass using incremental evaluation of decomposable kernels, summed volumes generates an intermediate data set and evaluates each filtered value by accessing only eight points in this dataset. We dynamically choose between these methods depending upon workload characteristics. The system allows us to perform filters against large data sets with little overhead: query performance scales with the clusters aggregate I/O throughput.

Chair/Author Details:

Hank Childs (Chair) - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Kalin Kanov - Johns Hopkins University

Randal Burns - Johns Hopkins University

Greg Eyink - Johns Hopkins University

Charles Meneveau - Johns Hopkins University

Alexander Szalay - Johns Hopkins University

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Data-Intensive Spatial Filtering in Large Numerical Simulation Datasets

SESSION: Visualization and Analysis of Massive Data Sets

EVENT TYPE:

TIME: 2:00PM - 2:30PM

SESSION CHAIR: Hank Childs

AUTHOR(S):Kalin Kanov, Randal Burns, Greg Eyink, Charles Meneveau, Alexander Szalay

ROOM:355-D

ABSTRACT:
We present a query processing framework for the efficient evaluation of spatial filters on large numerical simulation datasets stored in a data-intensive cluster. Previously, filtering of large numerical simulations stored in scientific databases has been impractical owing to the immense data requirements. Rather, filtering is done during simulation or by loading snapshots into the aggregate memory of an HPC cluster. Our system performs filtering within the database and supports large filter widths. We present two complementary methods of execution: I/O streaming computes a batch filter query in a single sequential pass using incremental evaluation of decomposable kernels, summed volumes generates an intermediate data set and evaluates each filtered value by accessing only eight points in this dataset. We dynamically choose between these methods depending upon workload characteristics. The system allows us to perform filters against large data sets with little overhead: query performance scales with the clusters aggregate I/O throughput.

Chair/Author Details:

Hank Childs (Chair) - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Kalin Kanov - Johns Hopkins University

Randal Burns - Johns Hopkins University

Greg Eyink - Johns Hopkins University

Charles Meneveau - Johns Hopkins University

Alexander Szalay - Johns Hopkins University

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