Distributed Augmentation, Hypersweeps, and Branch Decomposition of Contour Trees for Scientific Exploration

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Autores principales: Li, Mingzhe, Carr, Hamish, Rübel, Oliver, Wang, Bei, Weber, Gunther H.
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Publicado: 2024
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author Li, Mingzhe
Carr, Hamish
Rübel, Oliver
Wang, Bei
Weber, Gunther H.
author_facet Li, Mingzhe
Carr, Hamish
Rübel, Oliver
Wang, Bei
Weber, Gunther H.
contents Contour trees describe the topology of level sets in scalar fields and are widely used in topological data analysis and visualization. A main challenge of utilizing contour trees for large-scale scientific data is their computation at scale using high-performance computing. To address this challenge, recent work has introduced distributed hierarchical contour trees for distributed computation and storage of contour trees. However, effective use of these distributed structures in analysis and visualization requires subsequent computation of geometric properties and branch decomposition to support contour extraction and exploration. In this work, we introduce distributed algorithms for augmentation, hypersweeps, and branch decomposition that enable parallel computation of geometric properties, and support the use of distributed contour trees as query structures for scientific exploration. We evaluate the parallel performance of these algorithms and apply them to identify and extract important contours for scientific visualization.
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spellingShingle Distributed Augmentation, Hypersweeps, and Branch Decomposition of Contour Trees for Scientific Exploration
Li, Mingzhe
Carr, Hamish
Rübel, Oliver
Wang, Bei
Weber, Gunther H.
Computational Geometry
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Contour trees describe the topology of level sets in scalar fields and are widely used in topological data analysis and visualization. A main challenge of utilizing contour trees for large-scale scientific data is their computation at scale using high-performance computing. To address this challenge, recent work has introduced distributed hierarchical contour trees for distributed computation and storage of contour trees. However, effective use of these distributed structures in analysis and visualization requires subsequent computation of geometric properties and branch decomposition to support contour extraction and exploration. In this work, we introduce distributed algorithms for augmentation, hypersweeps, and branch decomposition that enable parallel computation of geometric properties, and support the use of distributed contour trees as query structures for scientific exploration. We evaluate the parallel performance of these algorithms and apply them to identify and extract important contours for scientific visualization.
title Distributed Augmentation, Hypersweeps, and Branch Decomposition of Contour Trees for Scientific Exploration
topic Computational Geometry
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04836