MovieMaker: a parallel movie-making software for large-scale simulations

摘要

We have developed a parallel rendering software for scientific visualization of large-scale, three-dimensional, time development simulations. The goal of this software, MovieMaker, is to generate a movie, or a. series of visualization images from one terabyte-scale data set within one night (or less than 12 h). The isocoutouring, volume rendering, and streamlines are implemented. MovieMaker is a parallel program for the shared memory architecture with dynamic load balancing, and overlapped disk I/O.