STZ: A High Quality and High Speed Streaming Lossy Compression Framework for Scientific Data

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Main Authors: Wang, Daoce, Grosset, Pascal, Pulido, Jesus, Tian, Jiannan, Athawale, Tushar M., Jia, Jinda, Sun, Baixi, Zhang, Boyuan, Jin, Sian, Zhao, Kai, Ahrens, James, Song, Fengguang
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author Wang, Daoce
Grosset, Pascal
Pulido, Jesus
Tian, Jiannan
Athawale, Tushar M.
Jia, Jinda
Sun, Baixi
Zhang, Boyuan
Jin, Sian
Zhao, Kai
Ahrens, James
Song, Fengguang
author_facet Wang, Daoce
Grosset, Pascal
Pulido, Jesus
Tian, Jiannan
Athawale, Tushar M.
Jia, Jinda
Sun, Baixi
Zhang, Boyuan
Jin, Sian
Zhao, Kai
Ahrens, James
Song, Fengguang
contents Error-bounded lossy compression is one of the most efficient solutions to reduce the volume of scientific data. For lossy compression, progressive decompression and random-access decompression are critical features that enable on-demand data access and flexible analysis workflows. However, these features can severely degrade compression quality and speed. To address these limitations, we propose a novel streaming compression framework that supports both progressive decompression and random-access decompression while maintaining high compression quality and speed. Our contributions are three-fold: (1) we design the first compression framework that simultaneously enables both progressive decompression and random-access decompression; (2) we introduce a hierarchical partitioning strategy to enable both streaming features, along with a hierarchical prediction mechanism that mitigates the impact of partitioning and achieves high compression quality -- even comparable to state-of-the-art (SOTA) non-streaming compressor SZ3; and (3) our framework delivers high compression and decompression speed, up to 6.7$\times$ faster than SZ3.
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spellingShingle STZ: A High Quality and High Speed Streaming Lossy Compression Framework for Scientific Data
Wang, Daoce
Grosset, Pascal
Pulido, Jesus
Tian, Jiannan
Athawale, Tushar M.
Jia, Jinda
Sun, Baixi
Zhang, Boyuan
Jin, Sian
Zhao, Kai
Ahrens, James
Song, Fengguang
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Multimedia
Error-bounded lossy compression is one of the most efficient solutions to reduce the volume of scientific data. For lossy compression, progressive decompression and random-access decompression are critical features that enable on-demand data access and flexible analysis workflows. However, these features can severely degrade compression quality and speed. To address these limitations, we propose a novel streaming compression framework that supports both progressive decompression and random-access decompression while maintaining high compression quality and speed. Our contributions are three-fold: (1) we design the first compression framework that simultaneously enables both progressive decompression and random-access decompression; (2) we introduce a hierarchical partitioning strategy to enable both streaming features, along with a hierarchical prediction mechanism that mitigates the impact of partitioning and achieves high compression quality -- even comparable to state-of-the-art (SOTA) non-streaming compressor SZ3; and (3) our framework delivers high compression and decompression speed, up to 6.7$\times$ faster than SZ3.
title STZ: A High Quality and High Speed Streaming Lossy Compression Framework for Scientific Data
topic Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01626