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One of the primary challenges facing scientists is extracting understanding from the large amounts of data produced by simulations, experiments, and observational facilities. The use of data across the entire lifetime ranging from real-time to post-hoc analysis is complex and varied, typically requiring a collaborative effort across multiple teams of scientists. Over time, three sets of tools have emerged: one set for analysis, another for visualization, and a final set for orchestrating the tasks. This trifurcated tool set often results in the manual assembly of analysis and visualization workflows, which are one-off solutions that are often fragile and difficult to generalize. To address these challenges, we propose a serviced-based paradigm and a set of abstractions to guide its design. These abstractions allow for the creation of services that can access and interpret data, and enable interoperability for intelligent scheduling of workflow systems. This work results from a codesign process over analysis, visualization, and workflow tools to provide the flexibility required for production use. Finally, this paper describes a forward-looking research and development plan that centers on the concept of visualization and analysis technology as reusable services, and also describes several real-world use cases that implement these concepts.
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This research was supported by the DOE SciDAC RAPIDS Institute and the Exascale Computing Project (17-SC-20-SC), a collaborative effort of DOE Office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration. This research used resources of the Argonne and Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facilities, DOE Office of Science User Facilities supported under Contracts DE-AC02-06CH11357 and DE-AC05-00OR22725, respectively, as well as the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a DOE Office of Science User Facility operated under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.
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Pugmire, D. et al. (2020). Visualization as a Service for Scientific Data. In: Nichols, J., Verastegui, B., Maccabe, A.‘., Hernandez, O., Parete-Koon, S., Ahearn, T. (eds) Driving Scientific and Engineering Discoveries Through the Convergence of HPC, Big Data and AI. SMC 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1315. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63393-6_11
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