Abstract

A scalable and high performance parallel visualization library has been developed for large-scale simulations on the Earth Simulator. Flexible parallel visualization models are provided to fit for different requirements of simulations. Meanwhile, a variety of mesh types in numerical simulations are applicable, covering particles, structured grids, and complicated unstructured and hybrid grids. Many techniques were employed to improve the visualization quality. Moreover, all the modules have been optimized according to the hardware features of the Earth Simulator. Good visualization images and high speedup performance on the Earth Simulator demonstrated the feasibility and effectiveness of our library.