- By:
- Maiterth, Matthias ; Brewer, Wesley H; de Wet, Dane ; Greenwood, Michael S; Kumar, Vineet ; Hines, Jesse R; Bouknight, Sedrick L; Wang, Zhe ; Dykes, Tim; Wang, Feiyi
- Page Number:
- 21-25
- Book Title:
- 2024 IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics (VIS)
- Publication Date:
- March 12, 2026
- Publisher Location:
- IEEE, New Jersey, United States of America
- Conference Name:
- IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics (IEEE VIS 2024)
- Conference Location:
- St. Pete Beach, Florida, United States of America
- Conference Sponsor:
- IEEE Computer Society and the Visualization and Graphics Technical Community
- View DOI Listing:
- https://doi.org/10.1109/VIS55277.2024.00012
Abstract
Digital twins are an excellent tool to model, visualize, and simulate complex systems, to understand and optimize their operation. In this work, we present the technical challenges of real-time visualization of a digital twin of the Frontier supercomputer.We show the initial prototype and current state of the twin and highlight technical design challenges of visualizing such a large High Performance Computing (HPC) system. The goal is to understand the use of augmented reality as a primary way to extract information and collaborate on digital twins of complex systems. This leverages the spatio-temporal aspect of a 3D representation of a digital twin, with the ability to view historical and real-time telemetry, triggering simulations of a system state and viewing the results, which can be augmented via dashboards for details. Finally, we discuss considerations and opportunities for augmented reality of digital twins of large-scale, parallel computers.
