A General Framework for Error-controlled Unstructured Scientific Data Compression

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-1-2024

Abstract

Data compression plays a key role in reducing storage and I/O costs. Traditional lossy methods primarily target data on rectilinear grids and cannot leverage the spatial coherence in unstructured mesh data, leading to suboptimal compression ratios. We present a multi-component, error-bounded compression framework designed to enhance the compression of floating-point unstructured mesh data, which is common in scientific applications. Our approach involves interpolating mesh data onto a rectilinear grid and then separately compressing the grid interpolation and the interpolation residuals. This method is general, independent of mesh types and typologies, and can be seamlessly integrated with existing lossy compressors for improved performance. We evaluated our framework across twelve variables from two synthetic datasets and two real-world simulation datasets. The results indicate that the multi-component framework consistently outperforms state-of-the-art lossy compressors on unstructured data, achieving, on average, a 2.3 - 3.5× improvement in compression ratios, with error bounds ranging from 1 × 10 the -6 to 1×10-2. We further investigate impact of hyperparameters, such as grid spacing and error allocation, to deliver optimal compression ratios in diverse datasets.

Identifier

85205997001 (Scopus)

ISBN

[9798350365610]

Publication Title

Proceedings - 2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Science, e-Science 2024

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/e-Science62913.2024.10678699

Fund Ref

Advanced Scientific Computing Research

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