Interactive visualization of the largest radioastronomy cubes |
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| Authors: | AH Hassan CJ Fluke DG Barnes |
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| Institution: | Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia |
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| Abstract: | 3D visualization is an important data analysis and knowledge discovery tool, however, interactive visualization of large 3D astronomical datasets poses a challenge for many existing data visualization packages. We present a solution to interactively visualize larger-than-memory 3D astronomical data cubes by utilizing a heterogeneous cluster of CPUs and GPUs. The system partitions the data volume into smaller sub-volumes that are distributed over the rendering workstations. A GPU-based ray casting volume rendering is performed to generate images for each sub-volume, which are composited to generate the whole volume output, and returned to the user. Datasets including the HI Parkes All Sky Survey (HIPASS – 12 GB) southern sky and the Galactic All Sky Survey (GASS – 26 GB) data cubes were used to demonstrate our framework’s performance. The framework can render the GASS data cube with a maximum render time <0.3 s with 1024 × 1024 pixels output resolution using three rendering workstations and eight GPUs. Our framework will scale to visualize larger datasets, even of Terabyte order, if proper hardware infrastructure is available. |
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