Hardening DOE R&D Software Tools for Web-based Visualization

Visualization remains an important tool to provide visual context to data with business increasingly requiring real-time access to the results through diverse platforms including mobile, desktop, and web. While modern web technologies have made this feasible, it is challenging to satisfy the interac- tivity and responsiveness expectations for large datasets. Consequently, a large potential application space for such solutions remains untapped. We propose a web-based visualization platform that can support development of highly interactive and responsive applications even when dealing with large datasets. Our solution combines several DOE technologies, ParaView, VTK-m, and Thallium, to develop a portable application development platform suitable for desktops, mobile devices and web browsers alike. We developed a prototype platform that demonstrated the feasibility and demo applications that demonstrated the significant benefits of our approach over state-of-the-art. We develop a portable production platform and a general-purpose visualization application for desktop and web-browsers. The market for visualization is expected to grow due to a shift towards analytically driven businesses. These businesses help their customers explore big data in various forms of graphical representation through visualization. Ubiquitous web-based visualization is essential to delivering large-scale data visualization to a variety of stakeholders from the engineer to board member. We intend to leverage our enhanced web-based visualization platform for the energy sources and environmental cleanup industries, and beyond to other industry sectors.