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Increasing data volumes from scientific simulations and instruments (supercomputers, accelerators, telescopes) often exceed network, storage, and analysis capabilities. The scientific community's response to this challenge is scientific…

Today's graphics processing unit (GPU) applications produce vast volumes of data, which are challenging to store and transfer efficiently. Thus, data compression is becoming a critical technique to mitigate the storage burden and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Boyuan Zhang , Jiannan Tian , Sheng Di , Xiaodong Yu , Martin Swany , Dingwen Tao , Franck Cappello

We explore an error-bounded lossy compression approach for reducing scientific data associated with 2D/3D unstructured meshes. While existing lossy compressors offer a high compression ratio with bounded error for regular grid data,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Congrong Ren , Xin Liang , Hanqi Guo

Error-controlled lossy compression has been studied for years because of extremely large volumes of data being produced by today's scientific simulations. None of existing lossy compressors, however, allow users to fix the peak…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Dingwen Tao , Sheng Di , Xin Liang , Zizhong Chen , Franck Cappello

Modern scientific simulations and instruments generate data volumes that overwhelm memory and storage, throttling scalability. Lossy compression mitigates this by trading controlled error for reduced footprint and throughput gains, yet…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Skyler Ruiter , Jiannan Tian , Fengguang Song

Today's scientific simulations require a significant reduction of data volume because of extremely large amounts of data they produce and the limited I/O bandwidth and storage space. Error-bounded lossy compressor has been considered one of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Xin Liang , Kai Zhao , Sheng Di , Sihuan Li , Robert Underwood , Ali M. Gok , Jiannan Tian , Junjing Deng , Jon C. Calhoun , Dingwen Tao , Zizhong Chen , Franck Cappello

Data compression plays a key role in reducing storage and I/O costs. Traditional lossy methods primarily target data on rectilinear grids and cannot leverage the spatial coherence in unstructured mesh data, leading to suboptimal compression…

The increasing volume and velocity of science data necessitate the frequent movement of enormous data volumes as part of routine research activities. As a result, limited wide-area bandwidth often leads to bottlenecks in research progress.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Yuanjian Liu , Sheng Di , Kyle Chard , Ian Foster , Franck Cappello

Rapidly increasing data sizes in scientific computing are the driving force behind the need for lossy compression. The main drawback of lossy data compression is the introduction of error. This paper explains why many error-bounded…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Alex Fallin , Martin Burtscher

With the promise of federated learning (FL) to allow for geographically-distributed and highly personalized services, the efficient exchange of model updates between clients and servers becomes crucial. FL, though decentralized, often faces…

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Many scientific applications opt for particles instead of meshes as their basic primitives to model complex systems composed of billions of discrete entities. Such applications span a diverse array of scientific domains, including molecular…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Longtao Zhang , Ruoyu Li , Congrong Ren , Sheng Di , Jinyang Liu , Jiajun Huang , Robert Underwood , Pascal Grosset , Dingwen Tao , Xin Liang , Hanqi Guo , Franck Capello , Kai Zhao

Today's scientific simulations, for example in the high-performance exascale sector, produce huge amounts of data. Due to limited I/O bandwidth and available storage space, there is the necessity to reduce scientific data of high…

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Error-bounded lossy compression is one of the most efficient solutions to reduce the volume of scientific data. For lossy compression, progressive decompression and random-access decompression are critical features that enable on-demand…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Daoce Wang , Pascal Grosset , Jesus Pulido , Jiannan Tian , Tushar M. Athawale , Jinda Jia , Baixi Sun , Boyuan Zhang , Sian Jin , Kai Zhao , James Ahrens , Fengguang Song

This paper presents error-bounded lossy compression tailored for particle datasets from diverse scientific applications in cosmology, fluid dynamics, and fusion energy sciences. As today's high-performance computing capabilities advance,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Congrong Ren , Sheng Di , Longtao Zhang , Kai Zhao , Hanqi Guo

The torrential influx of floating-point data from domains like IoT and HPC necessitates high-performance lossless compression to mitigate storage costs while preserving absolute data fidelity. Leveraging GPU parallelism for this task…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Zheng Li , Weiyan Wang , Ruiyuan Li , Chao Chen , Xianlei Long , Linjiang Zheng , Quanqing Xu , Chuanhui Yang

Because of vast volume of data being produced by today's scientific simulations and experiments, lossy data compressor allowing user-controlled loss of accuracy during the compression is a relevant solution for significantly reducing the…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Dingwen Tao , Sheng Di , Hanqi Guo , Zizhong Chen , Franck Cappello

GPUs have gained significant popularity over the past decade, extending beyond their original role in graphics rendering. This evolution has brought GPU security and reliability to the forefront of concerns. Prior research has shown that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Saurabh Singh , Ruobing Han , Jaewon Lee , Seonjin Na , Yonghae Kim , Taesoo Kim , Hyesoon Kim

Modern scientific simulations generate massive volumes of data, creating significant challenges for I/O and storage systems. Error-bounded lossy compression (EBLC) offers a solution by reducing data set sizes while preserving data quality…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Grant Wilkins , Sheng Di , Jon C. Calhoun , Robert Underwood , Franck Cappello

Huffman compression is a statistical, lossless, data compression algorithm that compresses data by assigning variable length codes to symbols, with the more frequently appearing symbols given shorter codes than the less. This work is a…

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