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    • Scientific Visualization
    • High-Performance Computing
    • Computational Fluid Dynamics

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    • Computing integral curves and surfaces in large-scale unsteady flow fields faces bottlenecks due to data access demands versus available bandwidth (I/O and in-memory).
    • Existing methods struggle with the scale and efficiency required for complex flow field analysis.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a novel, efficient, and scalable scheme for managing flow field data.
    • To overcome the limitations of current data access and bandwidth in large-scale unsteady flow analysis.

    Main Methods:

    • A novel advection-based scheme is proposed, partitioning flow fields into blocklets (e.g., cells).
    • Blocklets are managed on-demand using a parallel key-value store for prefetching and access.
    • The method is demonstrated on workstations and supercomputing environments.

    Main Results:

    • The scheme significantly increases the scale of local-range analysis within hardware resource limits.
    • Memory and I/O bandwidth efficiencies are improved, enhancing the scalability of particle advection.
    • Demonstrated significantly reduced I/O overhead compared to raw data access.

    Conclusions:

    • The advection-based blocklet management scheme offers an efficient and scalable solution for large-scale unsteady flow field data.
    • This approach effectively addresses bandwidth limitations and improves the performance of flow field analysis applications.
    • The method shows high scalability and reduced I/O overhead, making it suitable for both workstation and supercomputing environments.