Report on processing speed for visualization of large-scale data

Recently, calculation scale in the science and engineering is getting larger and larger in parallel with computers' increasing calculation speed and memory capacity. Post processing, so called visualization, of a huge amount of numerical data plays a very important role for understanding the meaning of the data. However, visualization of such large-scale data is still heavy load even for graphic computers. For the purpose of providing JAERI computer system users with what kind of graphic computer should be used for effective visualization of large scale data. Processing speeds for visualization of large-scale data are measured using general-purpose visualization software on graphic computers in JAERI. A guideline is summarized in this report to choose appropriate graphic computers according to the size of the data. (author)