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Interactive visualization of 3D mantle convection |
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| Authors: | Megan Damon Masanori C Kameyama Michael Knox David H Porter Dave Yuen Erik O D Sevre |
| Institution: | 1. Department of Geology and Geophysics and Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA 2. Geodynamics Center, Ehime University, 2-5 Bunkyocho, Matsuyama-shi, Ehime, 790-8577, Japan 3. Laboratory of Computational Sciences and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA |
| Abstract: | The current availability of thousands of processors at many high performance computing centers has made it feasible to carry out, in near real time, interactive visualization of 3D mantle convection temperature fields, using grid configurations having 10–100 million unknowns. We will describe the technical details involved in carrying out this endeavor, using the facilities available at the Laboratory of Computational Science and Engineering (LCSE) at the University of Minnesota. These technical details involve the modification of a parallel mantle convection program, ACuTEMan; the usage of client–server socket based programs to transfer upwards of a terabyte of time series scientific model data using a local network; a rendering system containing multiple nodes; a high resolution PowerWall display, and the interactive visualization software, DSCVR. We have found that working in an interactive visualizastion mode allows for fast and efficient analysis of mantle convection results. |
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