Open Invitation for VisIt Benchmark Ideas

After we reported on the inclusion of VisIt into the SuperComputing 2009 Student Cluster Competition, Hank Childs stopped by to post some information.

As far as the benchmarks: the evaluation criteria is still being determined. From an HPC perspective, we obviously want to stress I/O, compute, and communication.

My initial thoughts were to upsample a toy data set to become a large one, then have them run a script to make a movie. I was thinking a three frame movie with volume rendering, contouring, and a moving slice.

He follows it up with an invitation for suggestions and ideas on what to include in the contest criteria. So, here’s your chance: What would make for a good VisIt benchmark?

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .