Visualizing 150 Terabytes of Data

A team of #NASA scientists and engineers are using Summit, the world's fastest #supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), to simulate retropropulsion using NASA’s FUN3D, a computational fluid dynamics #simulation library. The amount of data produced during this simulation, which took approximately one week to run on Summit, was a massive 128 TB—equivalent to approximately 25,000 4K movies. The existing solution was to create a frame-by-frame video rendering of the data, a process that took hours. This demonstration uses two NVIDIA technologies—IndeX and GPUDirect Storage plus Weka file system —to allow researchers to fly through the massive dataset in real time, volumetrically, and even navigate through it while the simulation data continuously updates.

[damienk]

Kerbal Space Program sure has some high system requirements.

[JoaoPedro-nizk]

They opened the comments, YES LETS GO TRY RUN CRYSIS ON THIS COMPUTER

[mynamejeff]

Finally, a rig that can run Minecraft shaders at 60fps

[vanshbharadwaj]

Wait till they open more than 2 tabs one google chrome

[vedanthpadmanabhan]

nasa gonna be pissed when they learn they could've just simulated it with kerbal space program

[QuarkDoge]

my pc starting lag while playing this video

[DerpyDucky]

The only time 30 gb/s is considered “slow”

[woid]

So thats where all the 3080's went...

[modelllichtsysteme]

Our grandchildren will laugh when watching this video, on Mars

[WorthifyStore]

Imagine the cute little monitors attached to this beast of a machine

[markrobbins]

My computer sucks, but there is no reason to rub it in like that.

[palyze]

aha! we figured out where all the 3090/3080's went, straight to nasa!

[studiogreyfox]

150tb
My homework folder: *finally a worthy opponent*

[galadirk]

"30 gbps is slow"
Me: "I thought 5mbps is so fast"

[willfishing]

NASA is going to be pissed when they find out how much they could have bought a single 3070 for and bypassed that whole "summit" thing.

[MuradAdal]

twenty seven thousand GPUs. they could accidently generate a black hole in that facility.

[altStrm]

"We just used $500, 000 worth of hardware to render this scene." -- *Nvidia flexes*

[El_Presidente_]

Some kid a hundred years from now watching this video:
"Why do they need 27.000? I can do it myself."

[jack]

All these rigs and zero RGB? No wonder we still cant send people to mars.

[clokeron]

Blue pill: simulate Mars landing

Red pill: minecraft shaders 60fps