>Special Issue on Ultrascale Visualization
>
>IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications May/June 2010 Submission 
>deadline: 14 Sept. 2009
>
>As data sets quickly approach petascale sizes and beyond, there???s a 
>pressing need to address how to visualize data sets at extreme scale. 
>To deal with the challenges, next-generation visualization software 
>must change. Researchers must develop new visualization algorithms and 
>systems that can leverage the emerging software and hardware 
>technology. Data visualization and analysis must also be more tightly 
>integrated with the simulations generating the data.
>
>Emerging architectures provide us a unique opportunity to develop new 
>visualization software. Modern supercomputers already have over 100,000 
>cores, and machines with one million cores are on the horizon. The 
>number of cores available to desktop machines has been steadily 
>increasing. Extremely powerful graphics coprocessors and new 
>programming models provide additional computation and graphics 
>processing power, facilitating a tight coupling between applications 
>and graphics.
>
>Data storage and communication issues also profoundly affect 
>visualization systems??? efficacy. This is because processor 
>performance improvements have consistently outpaced data access rates 
>for disks. Consequently, simulations will generate more data than we 
>can effectively store and access with current hardware and software. 
>Researchers must address the issues of data movement by looking into 
>new ways to construct an end-to-end visualization pipeline.
>
>We invite submissions related to ultrascale visualization with topics 
>including, but not limited to,
>
>visualization and analysis on supercomputing platforms, in situ 
>visualization and analysis, visualization on high-resolution displays, 
>cloud computing for visualizing large-scale data, large-scale 
>visualization applications, visualization on emerging architectures, 
>visualization algorithms for large-scale shared- and distributed-memory 
>systems, visualization algorithms for GPUs and GPU clusters, 
>visualization on multicore CPUs, parallel visualization and analysis 
>algorithms, parallel volume and polygon rendering, and out-of-core 
>visualization algorithms.
>
>Articles should be no more than 10 magazine pages, where a page is 800 
>words and an image counts as 200 words. Cite only the 12 most relevant 
>references, and consider providing technical background in sidebars for 
>nonexpert readers. Color images can be interspersed throughout the 
>article and should be limited to a total of 10. Visit CG&A style and 
>length guidelines at www.computer.org/cga/author.html.
>
>Please submit your article using the online manuscript submission 
>service at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee. When uploading 
>your article, please select the appropriate special-issue title under 
>the category ???Manuscript Type.??? Also include complete contact 
>information for all authors and coauthors in the submission. If you 
>have any questions about submitting your article, please contact the 
>publications coordinator at cga-ma@computer.org.
>
>Please direct any correspondence before submission to the guest editors:
>
>James Ahrens, ahrens@lanl.gov
>Han-Wei Shen, hwshen@cse.ohio-state.edu