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In scientific simulations, observations, and experiments, the cost of transferring data to and from disk and across networks has become a significant bottleneck that particularly impacts subsequent data analysis and visualization. To…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Victor A. P. Magri , Peter Lindstrom

Compression is a crucial solution for data reduction in modern scientific applications due to the exponential growth of data from simulations, experiments, and observations. Compression with progressive retrieval capability allows users to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Zhuoxun Yang , Sheng Di , Longtao Zhang , Ruoyu Li , Ximiao Li , Jiajun Huang , Jinyang Liu , Franck Cappello , Kai Zhao

During the training of Large Language Models (LLMs), tensor data is periodically "checkpointed" to persistent storage to allow recovery of work done in the event of failure. The volume of data that must be copied during each checkpoint,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Daniel Waddington , Cornel Constantinescu

This paper introduces EXaCTz, a parallel algorithm that concurrently preserves extremum graphs and contour trees in lossy-compressed scalar field data. While error-bounded lossy compression is essential for large-scale scientific…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yuxiao Li , Mingze Xia , Xin Liang , Bei Wang , Hanqi Guo

Compression of floating-point data will play an important role in high-performance computing as data bandwidth and storage become dominant costs. Lossy compression of floating-point data is powerful, but theoretical results are needed to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-03 James Diffenderfer , Alyson Fox , Jeffrey Hittinger , Geoffrey Sanders , Peter Lindstrom

Lossy compressors are increasingly adopted in scientific research, tackling volumes of data from experiments or parallel numerical simulations and facilitating data storage and movement. In contrast with the notion of entropy in lossless…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Robert Underwood , Julie Bessac , David Krasowska , Jon C. Calhoun , Sheng Di , Franck Cappello

Because of the vast volume of data being produced by today's scientific simulations, lossy compression allowing user-controlled information loss can significantly reduce the data size and the I/O burden. However, for large-scale cosmology…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Dingewn Tao , Sheng Di , Zizhong Chen , Franck Cappello

Lossy compression is one of the most efficient solutions to reduce storage overhead and improve I/O performance for HPC applications. However, existing parallel I/O libraries cannot fully utilize lossy compression to accelerate parallel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Sian Jin , Dingwen Tao , Houjun Tang , Sheng Di , Suren Byna , Zarija Lukic , Franck Cappello

Multi-resolution methods such as Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) can enhance storage efficiency for HPC applications generating vast volumes of data. However, their applicability is limited and cannot be universally deployed across all…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Daoce Wang , Pascal Grosset , Jesus Pulido , Tushar M. Athawale , Jiannan Tian , Kai Zhao , Zarija Lukić , Axel Huebl , Zhe Wang , James Ahrens , Dingwen Tao

In GPU-accelerated data analytics, the overhead of data transfer from CPU to GPU becomes a performance bottleneck when the data scales beyond GPU memory capacity due to the limited PCIe bandwidth. Data compression has come to rescue for…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Gwangoo Yeo , Zhiyang Shen , Wei Cui , Matteo Interlandi , Rathijit Sen , Bailu Ding , Qi Chen , Minsoo Rhu

This paper presents a new algorithm for the lossy compression of scalar data defined on 2D or 3D regular grids, with topological control. Certain techniques allow users to control the pointwise error induced by the compression. However, in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-09 Maxime Soler , Melanie Plainchault , Bruno Conche , Julien Tierny

Scientific applications produce vast amounts of data, posing grand challenges in the underlying data management and analytic tasks. Progressive compression is a promising way to address this problem, as it allows for on-demand data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Yanliang Li , Wenbo Li , Qian Gong , Qing Liu , Norbert Podhorszki , Scott Klasky , Xin Liang , Jieyang Chen

Rapid growth in scientific data and a widening gap between computational speed and I/O bandwidth makes it increasingly infeasible to store and share all data produced by scientific simulations. Instead, we need methods for reducing data…

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Storing and archiving data produced by next-generation sequencing (NGS) is a huge burden for research institutions. Reference-based compression algorithms are effective in dealing with these data. Our work focuses on compressing FASTQ…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Yuanjian Liu , Huihao Luo , Zhijun Han , Yao Hu , Yehui Yang , Kyle Chard , Sheng Di , Ian Foster , Jiesheng Wu

This paper proposes a new method that combines check-pointing methods with error-controlled lossy compression for large-scale high-performance Full-Waveform Inversion (FWI), an inverse problem commonly used in geophysical exploration. This…

Scientific applications in fields such as high energy physics, computational fluid dynamics, and climate science generate vast amounts of data at high velocities. This exponential growth in data production is surpassing the advancements in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Xiao Li , Jaemoon Lee , Anand Rangarajan , Sanjay Ranka

With the widespread application of Mixture of Experts (MoE) reasoning models in the field of LLM learning, efficiently serving MoE models under limited GPU memory constraints has emerged as a significant challenge. Offloading the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Songkai Ma , Zhaorui Zhang , Sheng Di , Benben Liu , Xiaodong Yu , Xiaoyi Lu , Dan Wang

In the field of neural data compression, the prevailing focus has been on optimizing algorithms for either classical distortion metrics, such as PSNR or SSIM, or human perceptual quality. With increasing amounts of data consumed by machines…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Dan Jacobellis , Daniel Cummings , Neeraja J. Yadwadkar

This paper introduces a novel technique to preserve spectral features in lossy compression based on a novel fast Fourier correction algorithm\added{ for regular-grid data}. Preserving both spatial and frequency representations of data is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Congrong Ren , Robert Underwood , Sheng Di , Emrecan Kutay , Zarija Lukic , Aylin Yener , Franck Cappello , Hanqi Guo

We propose a new approach to the problem of optimizing autoencoders for lossy image compression. New media formats, changing hardware technology, as well as diverse requirements and content types create a need for compression algorithms…

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