WOIV'22

6th International Workshop on In Situ Visualization

Thursday, June 2, 2022 · 2pm to 6pm, CEST · Hamburg, Germany
Held in conjunction with ISC High Performance 2022.

Register

Registration is open. Early-bird deadline: April 26, 2022.
Organized by Peter Messmer, Tom Vierjahn, and the WOIV team.

Workshop Theme

Large-scale HPC simulations with their inherent I/O bottleneck have made in situ visualization an essential approach for data analysis, although the idea of in situ visualization dates back to the golden era of coprocessing in the 1990s. In situ coupling of analysis and visualization to a live simulation circumvents writing raw data to disk for post-mortem analysis – an approach that is already inefficient for today’s very large simulation codes. Instead, with in situ visualization, data abstracts are generated that provide a much higher level of expressiveness per byte. Therefore, more details can be computed and stored for later analysis, providing more insight than traditional methods.

We encourage contributed talks on methods and workflows that have been used for large-scale parallel visualization, with a particular focus on the in situ case. Presentations on codes that closely couple numerical methods and visualization are particularly welcome. Speakers should detail if and how the application drove abstractions or other kinds of data reductions and how these interacted with the expressiveness and flexibility of the visualization for exploratory analysis. Presentations on codes that closely couple numerical methods and visualization are particularly welcome. Speakers should detail frameworks used and data reductions applied. They should also indicate how these impacted the flexibility of the visualization for exploratory analysis.

Of particular interest to WOIV and its attendees are recent developments for in situ libraries and software. Submissions documenting recent additions to existing in situ software or new in situ platforms are highly encouraged. WOIV is an excellent place to connect providers of in situ solutions with potential customers.

For the submissions we are not only looking for success stories, but are also particularly interested in those experiments that started with a certain goal or idea in mind, but later got shattered by reality or insufficient hardware/software.

Areas of interest for WOIV include, but are not limited to:

  • Techniques and paradigms for in situ visualization.
  • Algorithms relevant to in situ visualization. These could include algorithms empowered by in situ visualization or algorithms that overcome limitations of in situ visualization.
  • Systems and software implementing in situ visualization. These include both general purpose and bespoke implementations. This also includes updates to existing software as well as new software.
  • Workflow management.
  • Use of in situ visualization for application science or other examples of using in situ visualization.
  • Performance studies of in situ systems. Comparisons between in situ systems or techniques or comparisons between in situ and alternatives (such as post hoc) are particularly encouraged.
  • The impact of hardware changes on in situ visualization.
  • The online visualization of experimental data.
  • Reports of in situ visualization failures.
  • Emerging issues with in situ visualization.

Program

June 2, 2022 · Hamburg, Germany
Times: CEST

 
 
 
 
 
Welcome Address
2:00 PM – 2:05 PM
 
 
 
 
 
Keynote
2:05 PM – 2:50 PM
Tim Gerrits, RWTH Aachen University:
Bringing Visualization to National HPC Infrastructure: A Prologue
 
 
 
 
 
Paper Session 1
2:50 PM – 4:00 PM
  • Soumya Dutta, Dan Lipsa, Terece Turton, Berk Geveci, and James Ahrens:
    In Situ Analysis and Visualization of Extreme-Scale Particle Simulations
  • Isaac Nealey, Silvio Rizzi, Victor Mateevitsi, Nicola Ferrier, Joseph Insley, and Michael Papka:
    Cinema Transfer: a Containerized Visualization Workflow
  • David Pugmire, Jian Huang, Scott Klasky, and Kenneth Moreland:
    The Need for Pervasive In Situ Analysis and Visualization (P-ISAV)
 
 
 
 
 
Coffee Break
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM
 
 
 
 
 
Paper Session 2
4:30 PM – 5:10 PM
  • Marcel Krüger, Simon Oehrl, Ali C. Demiralp, Sebastian Spreizer, Jens Bruchertseifer, Torsten W. Kuhlen, Tim Gerrits, and Benjamin Weyers:
    Insite: A Pipeline Enabling In-Transit Visualization and Analysis for Neuronal Network Simulations
  • Pavel Novikov, Denis Sabitov, Nikita Bukhanov, Marwan Charara, Michel Cancelliere, Fahad Rashed, and Abdulaziz Baiz
    Interactive Visualization of Large-Scale Oil and Gas Reservoir Simulation Models
 
 
 
 
 
Capstone
5:10 PM – 5:55 PM
Chris R. Johnson, Scientific Computing & Imaging (SCI) Institute, University of Utah:
In Situ Visualization Past and Future
 
 
 
 
 
Closing Remarks
5:55 PM – 6:00 PM

Submissions

We accept submissions of short papers (6 to 8 pages), full papers (10 to 12 pages) and lightning presentations (2 to 4 pages) in Springer single column LNCS style. Please find LaTeX and Word templates here.

Submissions are exclusively handled via EasyChair. The review process is single or double blind, we leave it to the discretion of the authors whether they want to disclose their identity in their submissions.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by experts in the field, and will be evaluated according to relevance to the workshop theme, technical soundness, thoroughness of success/failure comparison, and impactfulness of method/results. Accepted short and full papers will appear as post-conference workshop proceedings in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series; lightning presentations will be published via Zenodo. The submitted versions will be made available to workshop participants during ISC.

Timeline

Apr 15, 2022 :  Notification of acceptance
Apr 26, 2022 :  Early Bird registration deadline
May 10, 2022 :  Final presentatoin slides due (subject to change)
Jun 2, 2022 :  Workshop
Jun 30, 2022 :  Camera ready version due (subject to change, extrapolated from previous years)

People

Please feel free to reach out to the organizers via woiv@googlegroups.com.

Chairs

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Peter Messmer

NVIDIA

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Tom Vierjahn

Westphalian University of Applied Sciences

Invited Speakers

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Tim Gerrits

RWTH Aachen University

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Chris R. Johnson

Scientific Computing & Imaging (SCI) Institute, University of Utah

Speakers

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Soumya Dutta

Los Alamos National Laboratory

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Marcel Krüger

RWTH Aachen University

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Isaac Nealey

University of California, San Diego

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Pavel Novikov

Aramco Research Center - Moscow, Aramco Innovations LLC

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David Pugmire

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

IPC

Andy Bauer

US Army Corps Of Engineers

E. Wes Bethel

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Jose Camata

Federal University of Juiz de Fora

Berk Geveci

Kitware Inc.

Patrick Gralka

University of Stuttgart

Kevin Griffin

NVIDIA

Ingrid Hotz

Linköping University

James Kress

University of Oregon

Joanna Leng

University of Leeds

Shaomeng Li

National Center for Atmospheric Research

Kwan-Liu Ma

University of California, Davis

Nicole Marsaglia

University of Oregon

Andrey Ovsyannikov

Intel

Silvio Rizzi

Argonne National Laboratory

Gunther Weber

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Steering Committee

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Steffen Frey

University of Groningen

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Kenneth Moreland

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Guido Reina

Visualization Research Center, University of Stuttgart

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Thomas Theussl

Visualization Core Lab, KAUST

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Tom Vierjahn

Westphalian University of Applied Sciences