Title
Error-controlled, progressive, and adaptable retrieval of scientific data with multilevel decomposition
Abstract
ABSTRACTExtreme-scale simulations and high-resolution instruments have been generating an increasing amount of data, which poses significant challenges to not only data storage during the run, but also post-processing where data will be repeatedly retrieved and analyzed for a long period of time. The challenges in satisfying a wide range of post-hoc analysis needs while minimizing the I/O overhead caused by inappropriate and/or excessive data retrieval should never be left unmanaged. In this paper, we propose a data refactoring, compressing, and retrieval framework capable of 1) fine-grained data refactoring with regard to precision; 2) incrementally retrieving and recomposing the data in terms of various error bounds; and 3) adaptively retrieving data in multi-precision and multi-resolution with respect to different analysis. With the progressive data re-composition and the adaptable retrieval algorithms, our framework significantly reduces the amount of data retrieved when multiple incremental precision are requested and/or the downstream analysis time when coarse resolution is used. Experiments show that the amount of data retrieved under the same progressively requested error bound using our framework is 64% less than that using state-of-the-art single-error-bounded approaches. Parallel experiments with up to 1, 024 cores and ~ 600 GB data in total show that our approach yields 1.36× and 2.52× performance over existing approaches in writing to and reading from persistent storage systems, respectively.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3458817.3476179
The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Data compression,error control,storage and I/O,data retrieval
Conference
2167-4329
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-6654-8390-2
0
0.34
References 
Authors
24
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xin Liang142.07
Qian Gong201.01
Jieyang Chen303.04
Ben Whitney4194.38
Lipeng Wan553.79
Qing Liu638925.62
David Pugmire701.35
R.K. Archibald89310.41
Norbert Podhorszki922.73
S. Klasky108212.77