Parallel performance optimization of large-scale unstructured data visualization for the earth simulator

Abstract

This paper describes some efficient parallel performance optimization strategies for large-scale unstructured data visualization on SMP cluster machines including the Earth Simulator in Japan. The three-level hybrid parallelization is employed in our implementation, consisting of message passing for inter-SMP node communication, loop directives by OpenMP for intra-SMP node parallelization, and vectorization for each processing element (PE). In order to improve the speedup performance for the hybrid parallelization, some techniques, such as multi-coloring for removing data race and dynamic load repartition for load balancing, are considered. Good visualization images and high parallel performance have been achieved on Hitachi SR8000 for large-scale unstructured datasets, which shows the feasibility and effectiveness of our strategies.