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Supercomputer-based visualization systems used for analyzing output data of a numerical weather prediction model

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ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, Volume 18, Issue 3b

Pages 296 - 309

https://doi.org/10.1145/255129.255168

Published: 01 June 1990 Publication History

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Comparison of two supercomputer-based visualization systems developed over a half-year period show that the visualization/animation efficiency is largely dependent upon the efficiencies of individual computers, networking, and memory management.

Using a meteorological database, a case study is presented to illustrate a selection of parameters based on physical laws. Then, three-dimensional animations of selected parameters are made and used for investigating the evolutions of winter cyclone systems. The results indicate an animation with combined parameters that are physically related and reveal important cyclonic development mechanisms that could not have been seen by an animation with an individual parameter.

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cover image ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News

ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News Volume 18, Issue 3b

Special Issue: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Supercomputing

Sept. 1990

489 pages

ISSN:0163-5964

DOI:10.1145/255129

Chairmen:
Ahmed Sameh
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
,
Henk van der Vorst
Delft Univ. of Technology and CWI, The Netherlands

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ICS '90: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Supercomputing
June 1990
492 pages
ISBN:0897913698
DOI:10.1145/77726
Chairmen:
Ahmed Sameh
Univ. of Illinois
,
Henk van der Vorst
Delft Univ. of Technology and CWI, The Netherlands

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