Tri-Lab data models and format (DMF) project: parallel I/O and data exchange
L. M. Cook, Celeste Matarazzo, James A. Rathkopf · University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas) · 1998
A central goal of the ASCI program is to push simulation and modeling for Science-based Stockpile Stewardship to unprecedented levels. ASCI applications will use extremely high-fidelity models, on the order of one billion cells, to generate terabytes of raw data. Such vast amounts of data produced by these supercomputing applications will overwhelm scientists, whose efforts to understand their results are hindered by inadequate visualization and data management tools. Much of the Scientific Data Management (SDM) effort concerns managing the large and complex data emerging from these simulation codes. One particular area for which commercial and scalable solutions do not exist is in Parallel I/O and data exchange between simulations. To address these needs, the Tri-lab Data Models and Formats effort of the SDM project is developing capabilities to enable the capturing and sharing of simulation data.