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    • High-Performance Computing (HPC)

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    • Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) and unstructured meshes are crucial for efficient large-scale simulations.
    • Data partitioning for HPC often results in complex, non-convex boundaries, hindering standard visualization techniques.
    • In situ and post hoc visualization face challenges due to the difficulty of re-partitioning complex mesh data.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a novel distributed volume rendering and compositing algorithm for AMR and unstructured meshes.
    • To enable fast, high-accuracy, in-place rendering of complex simulation data.
    • To overcome limitations of standard rendering techniques that require convex and disjoint data partitioning.

    Main Methods:

    • Introduced Approximate Puzzlepiece Compositing, a distributed volume rendering algorithm.
    • Leveraged Moment-Based Ordered-Independent Transparency for scalable, order-independent compositing.
    • Designed an algorithm requiring minimal communication and no data re-partitioning.

    Main Results:

    • Demonstrated fast and high-accuracy in-place rendering of AMR and unstructured meshes.
    • Achieved scalable, order-independent compositing with minimal overhead at higher core counts.
    • Validated performance and image quality against state-of-the-art sort-last compositing techniques on HPC systems.

    Conclusions:

    • Approximate Puzzlepiece Compositing offers a scalable, high-performance, and high-quality rendering solution.
    • The algorithm is applicable to complex data distributions in large-scale Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations.
    • Eliminates the need for costly data re-partitioning, facilitating efficient in situ and post hoc analysis.