HPC Visual Computing and Analysis SW Development at ExaScale
Dr. Navratil will discuss the “state of the art” and near-term trends driving HPC application development efforts in preparation for the massive scale of data and computation in the ExaScale era. He will touch up the ongoing efforts of the SOLAR Ray Tracing Consortium’s efforts to utilize Ray Tracing for Compute and the role of the emerging ANARI Kronos API, the necessary merging of Compute and Visualization workflows, aka In Situ; plus advances in color theory enabling scientists to extract more detail during visual analysis.
Speaker(s)
Paul Navratil
Paul A. Navrátil is an expert in high-performance visualization technologies, accelerator-based computing and advanced rendering techniques at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include efficient algorithms for large-scale parallel visualization and data analysis (VDA) and innovative design for large-scale VDA systems. Dr. Navrátil’s recent work includes algorithms for large-scale distributed-memory ray tracing. This work enables photo-realistic rendering of the largest datasets produced on supercomputers today, such as cosmologic simulations of the Universe and computational fluid dynamics simulations at unprecedented levels of detail. He directs the Visualization area at TACC, which includes the Scalable Visualization Technologies (SVT) and Visualization Interfaces and Applications (VIA) groups. Dr. Navrátil’s work has been featured in numerous venues, both nationally and internationally, including the New York Times, Discover, and PBS News Hour. He holds BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and a BA in Plan II Honors from The University of Texas at Austin.
