

Available packages make this assumption of post- processing at quite a fundamental level and are not very well suited for plotting very large numbers of specialized particles. In attempting to write this much data to disk, each computational step introduces a significant performance bottleneck, yet most existing visualization software packages inherently rely on reading data in from a dump file.

Thus, the need exists for a new generation of visualization systems able to main- tain parity with the enormous volume of data generated.

High-performance computing provides unprecedented capabilities to produce higher resolution 4-D models in a fraction of time.
