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Particle-based simulations and point-cloud applications generate massive, irregular datasets that challenge storage, I/O, and real-time analytics. Traditional compression techniques struggle with irregular particle distributions and GPU…

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The amount of data generated and gathered in scientific simulations and data collection applications is continuously growing, putting mounting pressure on storage and bandwidth concerns. A means of reducing such issues is data compression;…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Alyson Fox , Peter Lindstrom

The rapid expansion of computational capabilities and the ever-growing scale of modern HPC systems present formidable challenges in managing exascale scientific data. Faced with such vast datasets, traditional lossless compression…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Wenqi Jia , Sian Jin , Jinzhen Wang , Wei Niu , Dingwen Tao , Miao Yin

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

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

Time series data compression is emerging as an important problem with the growth in IoT devices and sensors. Due to the presence of noise in these datasets, lossy compression can often provide significant compression gains without impacting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-14 Shubham Chandak , Kedar Tatwawadi , Chengtao Wen , Lingyun Wang , Juan Aparicio , Tsachy Weissman

Large-scale scientific simulations generate massive datasets, posing challenges for storage and I/O. Traditional lossy compression struggles to advance more in balancing compression ratio, data quality, and adaptability to diverse…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Wenqi Jia , Zhewen Hu , Youyuan Liu , Boyuan Zhang , Jinzhen Wang , Jinyang Liu , Wei Niu , Stavros Kalafatis , Junzhou Huang , Sian Jin , Daoce Wang , Jiannan Tian , Miao Yin

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

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

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 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

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

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

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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-25 N. Böing , J. Holke , C. Hergl , L. Spataro , G. Gassner , A. Basermann

Modern HPC applications produce increasingly large amounts of data, which limits the performance of current extreme-scale systems. Data reduction techniques, such as lossy compression, help to mitigate this issue by decreasing the size of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Griffin Dube , Jiannan Tian , Sheng Di , Dingwen Tao , Jon Calhoun , Franck Cappello

Error-bounded lossy compression is becoming more and more important to today's extreme-scale HPC applications because of the ever-increasing volume of data generated because it has been widely used in in-situ visualization, data stream…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Baodi Shan , Aabid Shamji , Jiannan Tian , Guanpeng Li , Dingwen Tao

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

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

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