Special Issue on Ultrascale Visualization
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
May/June 2010
Submission deadline: 14 Sept. 2009
As data sets quickly approach petascale sizes and beyond, there’s a pressing need to address how to visualize data sets at extreme scale. To deal with the challenges, next-generation visualization software must change. Researchers must develop new visualization algorithms and systems that can leverage the emerging software and hardware technology. Data visualization and analysis must also be more tightly integrated with the simulations generating the data.
Emerging architectures provide us a unique opportunity to develop new visualization software. Modern supercomputers already have over 100,000 cores, and machines with one million cores are on the horizon. The number of cores available to desktop machines has been steadily increasing. Extremely powerful graphics coprocessors and new programming models provide additional computation and graphics processing power, facilitating a tight coupling between applications and graphics.
Data storage and communication issues also profoundly affect visualization systems’ efficacy. This is because processor performance improvements have consistently outpaced data access rates for disks. Consequently, simulations will generate more data than we can effectively store and access with current hardware and software. Researchers must address the issues of data movement by looking into new ways to construct an end-to-end visualization pipeline.
We invite submissions related to ultrascale visualization with topics including, but not limited to,
- visualization and analysis on supercomputing platforms,
- in situ visualization and analysis,
- visualization on high-resolution displays,
- cloud computing for visualizing large-scale data,
- large-scale visualization applications,
- visualization on emerging architectures,
- visualization algorithms for large-scale shared- and distributed-memory systems,
- visualization algorithms for GPUs and GPU clusters,
- visualization on multicore CPUs,
- parallel visualization and analysis algorithms,
- parallel volume and polygon rendering, and
- out-of-core visualization algorithms.
Articles should be no more than 10 magazine pages, where a page is 800 words and an image counts as 200 words. Cite only the 12 most relevant references, and consider providing technical background in sidebars for nonexpert readers. Color images can be interspersed throughout the article and should be limited to a total of 10. Visit CG&A style and length guidelines at www.computer.org/cga/author.html.
Please submit your article using the online manuscript submission service at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee. When uploading your article, please select the appropriate special-issue title under the category “Manuscript Type.” Also include complete contact information for all authors and coauthors in the submission. If you have any questions about submitting your article, please contact the publications coordinator at cga-ma@computer.org.
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