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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

Many scientific codes and instruments generate large amounts of floating-point data at high rates that must be compressed before they can be stored. Typically, only lossy compression algorithms deliver high-enough compression ratios.…

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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…

Lossy compression plays a growing role in scientific simulations where the cost of storing their output data can span terabytes. Using error bounded lossy compression reduces the amount of storage for each simulation; however, there is no…

Applications · Statistics 2021-11-30 David Krasowska , Julie Bessac , Robert Underwood , Jon C. Calhoun , Sheng Di , Franck Cappello

Scientific applications typically generate large volumes of floating-point data, making lossy compression one of the most effective methods for data reduction, thereby lowering storage requirements and improving performance in large-scale…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Youyuan Liu , Taolue Yang , Sian Jin

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

Error-bounded lossy compression is essential for managing the massive data volumes produced by large-scale HPC simulations. While state-of-the-art compressors such as SZ and ZFP provide strong numerical error guarantees, they often fail to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Tripti Agarwal , Sheng Di , Xin Liang , Zhaoyuan Su , Yuxiao Li , Ganesh Gopalakrishnan , Hanqi Guo , Franck Cappello

Lossy compression is one of the most effective methods for reducing the size of scientific data containing multiple data fields. It reduces information density through prediction or transformation techniques to compress the data. Previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Youyuan Liu , Wenqi Jia , Taolue Yang , Miao Yin , Sian Jin

Error-bounded lossy compression has been effective in significantly reducing the data storage/transfer burden while preserving the reconstructed data fidelity very well. Many error-bounded lossy compressors have been developed for a wide…

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

The study addresses the problem of precision in floating-point (FP) computations. A method for estimating the errors which affect intermediate and final results is proposed and a summary of many software simulations is discussed. The basic…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-01-31 Glauco Masotti

Error-bounded lossy compression is a critical technique for significantly reducing scientific data volumes. With ever-emerging heterogeneous high-performance computing (HPC) architecture, GPU-accelerated error-bounded compressors (such as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Jiannan Tian , Sheng Di , Xiaodong Yu , Cody Rivera , Kai Zhao , Sian Jin , Yunhe Feng , Xin Liang , 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

With the ever-increasing execution scale of high performance computing (HPC) applications, vast amounts of data are being produced by scientific research every day. Error-bounded lossy compression has been considered a very promising…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jinyang Liu , Sheng Di , Kai Zhao , Xin Liang , Zizhong Chen , Franck Cappello

An alternative approach to two-part 'critical compression' is presented. Whereas previous results were based on summing a lossless code at reduced precision with a lossy-compressed error or noise term, the present approach uses a similar…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2013-01-03 John Scoville

Learning and Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI) techniques have become increasingly prevalent in high performance computing (HPC). However, these methods depend on vast volumes of floating point data for training and validation which need…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Robert Underwood , Jon C. Calhoun , Sheng Di , Franck Cappello

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

Lossy compression is widely used to reduce storage and I/O costs for large-scale particle datasets in scientific applications such as cosmology, molecular dynamics, and fluid dynamics, where clustering structures (e.g., single-linkage or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Congrong Ren , Sheng Di , Katrin Heitmann , Franck Cappello , Hanqi Guo

Compression schemes have been extensively used in Federated Learning (FL) to reduce the communication cost of distributed learning. While most approaches rely on a bounded variance assumption of the noise produced by the compressor, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Mahmoud Hegazy , Rémi Leluc , Cheuk Ting Li , Aymeric Dieuleveut

Lossy compression is one of the most important strategies to resolve the big science data issue, however, little work was done to make it resilient against silent data corruptions (SDC). In fact, SDC is becoming non-negligible because of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Sihuan Li , Sheng Di , Kai Zhao , Xin Liang , Zizhong Chen , Franck Cappello