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ArborX is a performance portable geometric search library developed as part of the Exascale Computing Project (ECP). In this paper, we explore a collaboration between ArborX and a cosmological simulation code HACC. Large cosmological…

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We propose an extension of the well-known Space-Time Cube (STC) visualization technique in order to visualize time-varying 3D spatial data, taking advantage of the interaction capabilities of Virtual Reality (VR). The analysis of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Gwendal Fouché , Ferran Argelaguet , Emmanuel Faure , Charles Kervrann

We present the design of a novel way of handling astronomical catalogs in Astro-WISE in order to achieve the scalability required for the data produced by large scale surveys. A high level of automation and abstraction is achieved in order…

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In this paper we show how advanced visualization tools can help the researcher in investigating and extracting information from data. The focus is on VisIVO, a novel open source graphics application, which blends high performance…

The ever-increasing complexity of HW/SW systems presents a persistent challenge, particularly in safety-critical domains like automotive, where extensive testing is imperative. However, the availability of hardware often lags behind,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Lukas Jünger , Jan Henrik Weinstock , Tim Kraus

Astronomy is by nature a visual science. The high quality imagery produced by the world's observatories can be a key to effectively engaging with the public and helping to inspire the next generation of scientists. Creating compelling…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-28 Joseph DePasquale , Kimberly Arcand , Peter Edmonds

Graphical simulations are a cornerstone of modern media and films. But existing software packages are designed to run on HPC nodes, and perform poorly in the computing cloud. These simulations have complex data access patterns over complex…

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There are many astrophysical and laboratory scenarios where kinetic effects play an important role. These range from astrophysical shocks and plasma shell collisions, to high intensity laser-plasma interactions, with applications to fast…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. A. Fonseca , S. F. Martins , L. O. Silva , J. W. Tonge , F. S. Tsung , W. B. Mori

Current and upcoming radio-interferometers are expected to produce volumes of data of increasing size that need to be processed in order to generate the corresponding sky brightness distributions through imaging. This represents an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Claudio Gheller , Giuliano Taffoni , David Goz

The advent of experimental science facilities-instruments and observatories, such as the Large Hadron Collider, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, and the upcoming Large Synoptic Survey Telescope-has brought about…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-12 E. A. Huerta , Roland Haas , Shantenu Jha , Mark Neubauer , Daniel S. Katz

Cloud computing recently developed into a viable alternative to on-premises systems for executing high-performance computing (HPC) applications. With the emergence of new vendors and hardware options, there is now a growing need to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Mohammad Mohammadi , Timur Bazhirov

We present a computationally efficient expectation-maximization framework for multi-frame image deconvolution and super-resolution. Our method is well adapted for processing large scale imaging data from modern astronomical surveys. Our…

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Reconstructing the Gaussian initial conditions at the beginning of the Universe from the survey data in a forward modeling framework is a major challenge in cosmology. This requires solving a high dimensional inverse problem with an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Chirag Modi , François Lanusse , Uroš Seljak , David N. Spergel , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur

The use of adaptive workflow management for in situ visualization and analysis has been a growing trend in large-scale scientific simulations. However, coordinating adaptive workflows with traditional procedural programming languages can be…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Qi Wu , Tyson Neuroth , Oleg Igouchkine , Konduri Aditya , Jacqueline H. Chen , Kwan-Liu Ma

The usage of the high-level scripting language Python has enabled new mechanisms for data interrogation, discovery and visualization of scientific data. We present yt, an open source, community-developed astrophysical analysis and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-21 Matthew J. Turk , Britton D. Smith

Rendering huge biological scenes with atomistic detail presents a significant challenge in molecular visualization due to the memory limitations inherent in traditional rendering approaches. In this paper, we propose a novel method for the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Ruwayda Alharbi , Ondřej Strnad , Markus Hadwiger , Ivan Viola

Visualization, from simple line plots to complex high-dimensional visual analysis systems, has established itself throughout numerous domains to explore, analyze, and evaluate data. Applying such visualizations in the context of simulation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Jens Koenen , Marvin Petersen , Christoph Garth , Tim Gerrits

We propose a connection between the visualisation of cosmic matter and structure formation in the Cartesian tradition and that used by contemporary astrophysics. More precisely, we identify cosmological simulations of large scale structure…

Popular Physics · Physics 2011-11-16 Lucia Ayala , Jaime E. Forero-Romero

Upcoming astronomical surveys produce imagery that spans many orders of magnitude in spatial scale, requiring scientists to reason fluidly between global structure and local detail. Data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory exemplifies this…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Ava Nederlander , Zainab Aamir , Arie E. Kaufman

Visual question answering (VQA) is an important and challenging multimodal task in computer vision. Recently, a few efforts have been made to bring VQA task to aerial images, due to its potential real-world applications in disaster…

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