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Visualization for applications in shock physics
This case study presents work being done to provide visualization capabilities for a family of codes at Sandia in the area of shock physics. The codes, CTH and Parallel CTH, are running in traditional supercomputing as well as massively parallel environments. These are Eulerian codes which produce data on structured grids. Data sets can be large, so managing large data is a priority. A supercomputing-based distributed visualization environment has been implemented to support such applications. This environment, which is based in New Mexico, is also accessible from our branch site in California via a long haul FDDI/ATM link. Functionality includes the ability to track ongoing simulations. A custom visualization file has been developed to provide efficient, interactive access to result data. Visualization capabilities are based on the commercially available AVS software. A few example results are presented, along with a brief discussion of future work.