Publications

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Journal and Conference Papers

MAGIC: Marching Cubes Isosurface Uncertainty Visualization for Gaussian Uncertain Data with Spatial Correlation. Tushar M. Athawale, Kenneth Moreland, David Pugmire, Chris R. Johnson, Paul Rosen, Matthew Norman, Antigoni Georgiadou, and Alireza Entezari. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, pages 1–16, January 2026. (early access). doi:10.1109/TVCG.2026.3653244.

Parallelize Over Data Particle Advection: Participation, Ping Pong Particles, and Overhead. Zhe Wang, Kenneth Moreland, Matthew Larsen, James Kress, Hank Childs, and David Pugmire. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 10, 31(10):7795–7808, October 2025. doi:10.1109/TVCG.2025.3557453.

The Origins of the ParaView and VisIt Scientific Visualization Tools. James Ahrens, Hank Childs, and Kenneth Moreland. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 5, 45(5):127–137, September 2025. doi:10.1109/MCG.2025.3595349.

In Situ Workload Estimation for Block Assignment and Duplication in Parallelization-Over-Data Particle Advection. Zhe Wang, Kenneth Moreland, Matthew Larsen, James Kress, Hank Childs, Guan Li, Guihua Shan, and David Pugmire. Computer Graphics Forum, 3, 44(3), May 2025. doi:10.1111/cgf.70108.

Uncertainty Visualization of Critical Points of 2D Scalar Fields for Parametric and Nonparametric Probabilistic Models. Tushar M. Athawale, Zhe Wang, David Pugmire, Kenneth Moreland, Qian Gong, Scott Klasky, Chris R. Johnson, and Paul Rosen. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 1, 31(1):108–118, January 2025. doi:10.1109/TVCG.2024.3456393.

Visualization at exascale: Making it all work with VTK-m. Kenneth Moreland, Tushar M. Athawale, Vicente Bolea, Mark Bolstad, Eric Brugger, Hank Childs, Axel Huebl, Li-Ta Lo, Berk Geveci, Nicole Marsaglia, Sujin Philip, David Pugmire, Silvio Rizzi, Zhe Wang, and Abhishek Yenpure. The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 5, 38(5):508–526, August 2024. doi:10.1177/10943420241270969.

A New Default Colormap for ParaView. Francesca Samsel, W. Alan Scott, and Kenneth Moreland. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 4, 44(4):150–160, July 2024. doi:10.1109/MCG.2024.3383137.

Minimizing Development Costs for Efficient Many-Core Visualization Using MCD³. Kenneth Moreland, Robert Maynard, David Pugmire, Abhishek Yenpure, Allison Vacanti, Matthew Larsen, and Hank Childs. Parallel Computing, 102834, 108(102834), December 2021. doi:10.1016/j.parco.2021.102834.

Scientific Visualization: New Techniques in Production Software. Kenneth Moreland and Hank Childs. SIAM News, November 2020.

A terminology for in situ visualization and analysis systems. Hank Childs, et al. The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, August 2020. doi:10.1177/1094342020935991.

Coupling Exascale Multiphysics Applications: Methods and Lessons Learned. J. Y. Choi, C. Chang, J. Dominski, S. Klasky, G. Merlo, E. Suchyta, M. Ainsworth, B. Allen, F. Cappello, M. Churchill, P. Davis, S. Di, G. Eisenhauer, S. Ethier, I. Foster, B. Geveci, H. Guo, K. Huck, F. Jenko, M. Kim, J. Kress, S. Ku, Q. Liu, J. Logan, A. Malony, K. Mehta, K. Moreland, T. Munson, M. Parashar, T. Peterka, N. Podhorszki, D. Pugmire, O. Tugluk, R. Wang, B. Whitney, M. Wolf, and C. Wood. In 2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science), pages 442–452, October 2018. doi:10.1109/eScience.2018.00133.

The future of scientific workflows. Ewa Deelman, Tom Peterka, Ilkay Altintas, Christopher D Carothers, Kerstin Kleese van Dam, Kenneth Moreland, Manish Parashar, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Michela Taufer, and Jeffrey Vetter. International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 1, 32(1):159–175, January 2018. doi:10.1177/1094342017704893.

In Situ Methods, Infrastructures, and Applications on High Performance Computing Platforms. Andrew C. Bauer, Hasan Abbasi, James Ahrens, Hank Childs, Berk Geveci, Scott Klasky, Kenneth Moreland, Patrick O’Leary, Venkatram Vishwanath, Brad Whitlock, and E. Wes Bethel. Computer Graphics Forum, 3, 35(3):577–597, June 2016. doi:10.1111/cgf.12930.

VTK-m: Accelerating the Visualization Toolkit for Massively Threaded Architectures. Kenneth Moreland, Christopher Sewell, William Usher, Li-Ta Lo, Jeremy Meredith, David Pugmire, James Kress, Hendrik Schroots, Kwan-Liu Ma, Hank Childs, Matthew Larsen, Chun-Ming Chen, Robert Maynard, and Berk Geveci. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 3, 36(3):48–58, May/June 2016. doi:10.1109/MCG.2016.48.

The Tensions of In Situ Visualization. Kenneth Moreland. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2, 36(2):5–9, March/April 2016. doi:10.1109/MCG.2016.35.

Formal Metrics for Large-Scale Parallel Performance. Kenneth Moreland and Ron Oldfield. In ISC High Performance, pages 488–496, June 2015. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-20119-1_34.

Evaluation of Methods to Integrate Analysis into a Large-Scale Shock Physics Code. Ron A. Oldfield, Kenneth Moreland, Nathan Fabian, and David Rogers. In Proceedings of the 28th ACM international Conference on Supercomputing (ICS ‘14), pages 83–92, June 2014. doi:10.1145/2597652.2597668.

ADIOS Visualization Schema: A First Step Towards Improving Interdisciplinary Collaboration in High Performance Computing. Roselyne Tchoua, Jong Choi, Scott Klasky, Qing Liu, Jeremy Logan, Kenneth Moreland, Jingqing Mu, Manish Parashar, Norbert Podhorszki, David Pugmire, and Matthew Wolf. In IEEE International Conference on eScience, pages 27–34, October 2013. doi:10.1109/eScience.2013.24.

Research Challenges for Visualization Software. Hank Childs, Berk Geveci, Will Schroeder, Jeremy Meredith, Kenneth Moreland, Christopher Sewell, Torsten Kuhlen, and E. Wes Bethel. IEEE Computer, 5, 46(5):34–42, May 2013. doi:10.1109/MC.2013.179.

A Survey of Visualization Pipelines. Kenneth Moreland. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 3, 19(3):367–378, March 2013. doi:10.1109/TVCG.2012.133.

An Image Compositing Solution at Scale. Kenneth Moreland, Wesley Kendall, Tom Peterka, and Jian Huang. In Proceedings of 2011 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC ‘11), November 2011. doi:10.1145/2063384.2063417.

Time Dependent Processing in a Parallel Pipeline Architecture. John Biddiscombe, Berk Geveci, Ken Martin, Kenneth Moreland, and David Thompson. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 6, 13(6):1376–1383, November/December 2007. doi:10.1109/TVCG.2007.70600.

Scalable Rendering on PC Clusters. Brian Wylie, Constantine Pavlakos, Vasily Lewis, and Kenneth Moreland. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 4, 21(4):62–70, July/August 2001.

Ph.D. Dissertation

Fast High Accuracy Volume Rendering. Kenneth Moreland. PhD thesis, University of New Mexico, July 2004.

Symposium, Workshop, and Invited Papers

Rasterization with Data-Parallel Primitives. Makani Buckley, Kenneth Moreland, and Hank Childs. In Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV), 2026. (To appear in).

Efficient Probabilistic Visualization of Local Divergence of 2D Vector Fields with Independent Gaussian Uncertainty. Timbwaoga A. J. Ouermi, Eric Li, Kenneth Moreland, Dave Pugmire, Chris R. Johnson, and Tushar M. Athawale. In 2025 IEEE Workshop on Uncertainty Visualization: Unraveling Relationships of Uncertainty, AI, and Decision-Making, pages 12–16, November 2025. Winner best paper. doi:10.1109/UncertaintyVisualization68947.2025.00006.

FunM²C: A Filter for Uncertainty Visualization of Multivariate Data on Multi-Core Devices. Gautam Hari, Nrushad Joshi, Zhe Wang, Qian Gong, Dave Pugmire, Kenneth Moreland, Chris R. Johnson, Scott Klasky, Norbert Podhorszki, and Tushar M. Athawale. In Proceedings IEEE Workshop on Uncertainty Visualization, pages 43–47, October 2024. doi:10.1109/UncertaintyVisualization63963.2024.00010.

An Entropy-Based Test and Development Framework for Uncertainty Modeling in Level-Set Visualizations. Robert Sisneros, Tushar Athawale, David Pugmire, and Kenneth Moreland. In Proceedings IEEE Workshop on Uncertainty Visualization, pages 78–83, October 2024. doi:10.1109/UncertaintyVisualization63963.2024.00015.

A Personalized AI Assistant For Intuition-Driven Visual Explorations. James Hammer, Tanner Hobson, David Pugmire, Scott Klasky, Kenneth Moreland, and Jian Huang. In IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science), September 2024. doi:10.1109/e-Science62913.2024.10678681.

Top Research Challenges and Opportunities for Near Real-Time Extreme-Scale Visualization of Scientific Data. David Pugmire, Kenneth Moreland, Tushar M. Athawale, James Hammer, and Jian Huang. In Proceedings IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Science, September 2024. doi:10.1109/e-Science62913.2024.10678727.

Performance Improvements of Poincaré Analysis for Exascale Fusion Simulations. David Pugmire, Jong Y. Choi, Scott Klasky, Kenneth Moreland, Eric Suchyta, Tushar M. Athawale, Zhe Wang, Choong-Seock Chang, Seung-Hoe Ku, and Robert Hager. In VisGap - The Gap between Visualization Research and Visualization Software, May 2024. doi:10.2312/visgap.20241120.

An Accelerated Clip Algorithm for Unstructured Meshes: A Batch-Driven Approach. Spiros Tsalikis, Will Schroeder, Daniel Szafir, and Kenneth Moreland. In Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV), May 2024. doi:10.2312/pgv.20241130.

FunMC²: A Filter for Uncertainty Visualization of Marching Cubes on Multi-Core Devices. Zhe Wang, Tushar M. Athawale, Kenneth Moreland, Jieyang Chen, Chris R. Johnson, and David Pugmire. In Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV), May 2023. doi:10.2312/pgv.20231081.

Leveraging Production Visualization Tools In Situ. Kenneth Moreland, Andrew C. Bauer, Berk Geveci, Patrick O’Leary, and Brad Whitlock. In In Situ Visualization for Computational Science, Springer, pages 205–231, 2022. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-81627-8_10. ISBN:978-3-030-81626-1.

Catalyst Revised: Rethinking the ParaView in Situ Analysis and Visualization API. Utkarsh Ayachit, Andrew C. Bauer, Ben Boeckel, Berk Geveci, Kenneth Moreland, Patrick O’Leary, and Tom Osika. In High Performance Computing, pages 484–494, June 2021. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-90539-2_33.

Scalable In Situ Computation of Lagrangian Representations via Local Flow Maps. Sudhanshu Sane, Abhishek Yenpure, Roxana Bujack, Matthew Larsen, Kenneth Moreland, Christoph Garth, Chris R. Johnson, and Hank Childs. In Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV), June 2021. Winner best paper. doi:10.2312/pgv.20211040.

GPU-based Image Compression for Efficient Compositing in Distributed Rendering Applications. Riley Lipinksi, Kenneth Moreland, Michael E. Papka, and Thomas Marrinan. In 2021 IEEE 11th Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV), pages 43–52, 2021. doi:10.1109/LDAV53230.2021.00012.

Efficient Point Merging Using Data Parallel Techniques. Abhishek Yenpure, Hank Childs, and Kenneth Moreland. In Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and VIsualization (EGPGV), June 2019. doi:10.2312/pgv.20191112.

Comparing Binary-Swap Algorithms for Odd Factors of Processes. Kenneth Moreland. In Proceedings of the 8th IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV), October 2018. doi:10.1109/LDAV.2018.8739210.

Techniques for Data-Parallel Searching for Duplicate Elements. Brenton Lessley, Kenneth Moreland, Matthew Larsen, and Hank Childs. In IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV), October 2017. doi:10.1109/LDAV.2017.8231845.

Optimizing Multi-Image Sort-Last Parallel Rendering. Matthew Larsen, Kenneth Moreland, Chris Johnson, and Hank Childs. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV), October 2016. doi:10.1109/LDAV.2016.7874308.

Why We Use Bad Color Maps and What You Can Do About It. Kenneth Moreland. In Proceedings of Human Vision and Electronic Imaging (HVEI), February 2016. doi:10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2016.16.HVEI-133.

ParaView Catalyst: Enabling In Situ Data Analysis and Visualization. Utkarsh Ayachit, Andrew Bauer, Berk Geveci, Patrick O’Leary, Kenneth Moreland, Nathan Fabian, and Jeffrey Mauldin. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-Scale Analysis and Visualization (ISAV 2015), pages 25–29, November 2015. doi:10.1145/2828612.2828624.

Visualization for Exascale: Portable Performance is Critical. Kenneth Moreland, Matthew Larsen, and Hank Childs. Supercomputing Frontiers and Innovations, 3, 2(3), November 2015. doi:10.14529/jsfi150306.

Finely-Threaded History-Based Topology Computation. Robert Miller, Kenneth Moreland, and Kwan-Liu Ma. In Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization, June 2014. doi:10.2312/pgv.20141083.

A Classification of Scientific Visualization Algorithms for Massive Threading. Kenneth Moreland, Berk Geveci, Kwan-Liu Ma, and Robert Maynard. In Proceedings of Ultrascale Visualization Workshop, November 2013. doi:10.1145/2535571.2535591.

The ParaView Visualization Application. Utkarsh Ayachit, Berk Geveci, Kenneth Moreland, John Patchett, and Jim Ahrens. High Performance Visualization: Enabling Extreme Scale Insight, CRC Press, pages 383–400, 2013. ISBN:978-1-4398-7572-8.

IceT. Kenneth Moreland. High Performance Visualization: Enabling Extreme Scale Insight, CRC Press, pages 373–382, 2013. ISBN:978-1-4398-7572-8.

Flexible Analysis Software for Emerging Architectures. Kenneth Moreland, Brad King, Robert Maynard, and Kwan-Liu Ma. In 2012 SC Companion (Petascale Data Analytics: Challenges and Opportunities), pages 821–826, November 2012. doi:10.1109/SC.Companion.2012.115.

Redirecting Research in Large-Format Displays for Visualization. Kenneth Moreland. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Large-Scale Data Analysis and Visualization, pages 91–95, October 2012. doi:10.1109/LDAV.2012.6378981.

Examples of In Transit Visualization. Kenneth Moreland, Ron Oldfield, Pat Marion, Sebastien Jourdain, Norbert Podhorszki, Venkatram Vishwanath, Nathan Fabian, Ciprian Docan, Manish Parashar, Mark Hereld, Michael E. Papka, and Scott Klasky. In Petascale Data Analytics: Challenges and Opportunities (PDAC-11), November 2011. doi:10.1145/2110205.2110207.

The ParaView Coprocessing Library: A Scalable, General Purpose In Situ Visualization Library. Nathan Fabian, Kenneth Moreland, David Thompson, Andrew C. Bauer, Pat Marion, Berk Geveci, Michel Rasquin, and Kenneth E. Jansen. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Large-Scale Data Analysis and Visualization, pages 89–96, October 2011. doi:10.1109/LDAV.2011.6092322.

Dax Toolkit: A Proposed Framework for Data Analysis and Visualization at Extreme Scale. Kenneth Moreland, Utkarsh Ayachit, Berk Geveci, and Kwan-Liu Ma. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Large-Scale Data Analysis and Visualization, pages 97–104, October 2011. doi:10.1109/LDAV.2011.6092323.

In Situ Data Processing for Extreme Scale Computing. Scott Klasky, et al. In Proceedings of SciDAC 2011, July 2011.

Diverging Color Maps for Scientific Visualization. Kenneth Moreland. In Advances in Visual Computing (Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing), 5876:92–103, December 2009. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-10520-3_9.

Next-Generation Visualization Technologies: Enabling Discoveries at Extreme Scale. Kwan-Liu Ma, Chaoli Wang, Hongfeng Yu, Kenneth Moreland, Jian Huang, and Rob Ross. SciDAC Review, 12, pages 12–21, Spring 2009.

Visualization and parallel I/O at extreme scale. R B Ross, T Peterka, H-W Shen, Y Hong, K-L Ma, H Yu, and K Moreland. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 012099, 125(012099), July 2008. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/125/1/012099.

Ultra-Scale Visualization: Research and Education. Kwan-Liu Ma, Robert Ross, Jian Huang, Greg Humphreys, Nelson Max, Kenneth Moreland, John D. Owens, and Han-Wei Shen. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 012088, 78(012088), June 2007. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/78/1/012088.

Parallel Unstructured Volume Rendering in ParaView. Kenneth Moreland, Lisa Avila, and Lee Ann Fisk. In Visualization and Data Analysis 2007, Proceedings of SPIE-IS&T Electronic Imaging, pages 64950F-1–12, January 2007. doi:10.1117/12.704533.

Remote Large Data Visualization in the ParaView Framework. Andy Cedilnik, Berk Geveci, Kenneth Moreland, James Ahrens, and Jean Farve. In Eurographics Parallel Graphics and Visualization, pages 163–170, May 2006. doi:10.2312/EGPGV/EGPGV06/163-170.

A Fast High Accuracy Volume Renderer for Unstructured Data. Kenneth Moreland and Edward Angel. In IEEE Symposium on Volume Visualization and Graphics, pages 9–16, October 2004. doi:10.1109/SVVG.2004.2.

From Cluster to Wall with VTK. Kenneth Moreland and David Thompson. In Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Large-Data Visualization and Graphics, pages 25–31, October 2003. doi:10.1109/PVGS.2003.1249039.

The FFT on a GPU. Kenneth Moreland and Edward Angel. In SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware 2003 Proceedings, pages 112–119, July 2003.

Tetrahedral Projection using Vertex Shaders. Brian Wylie, Kenneth Moreland, Lee Ann Fisk, and Patricia Crossno. In Proceedings of IEEE Volume Visualization and Graphics Symposium, pages 7–12, October 2002. doi:10.1109/SWG.2002.1226504.

Sort-Last Parallel Rendering for Viewing Extremely Large Data Sets on Tile Displays. Kenneth Moreland, Brian Wylie, and Constantine Pavlakos. In Proceedings of the IEEE 2001 Symposium on Parallel and Large-Data Visualization and Graphics, pages 85–92, October 2001. doi:10.1109/PVGS.2001.964408.

Technical Reports and other Non Peer Reviewed

Scientific Data Compression for Large Scale Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Simulations. Viktor Reshniak, Qian Gong, Rick Archibald, Scott Klasky, Norbert Podhorszki, and Ken Moreland. Technical Report ORNL/TM-2026/4558, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), April 2026. CRADA Final Report – NFE-22-09231. doi:10.2172/3029729.

The Viskores User’s Guide, Release 1.0. Kenneth Moreland. Technical Report ORNL/TM-2025/4019, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, April 2025.

New Default Colormap and Background in the next version of ParaView. Francesca Samsel, Ken Moreland, W. Alan Scott, Spiros Tsalikis, and Cory Quammen. Kitware Source, October 2024.

The VTK-m User’s Guide, VTK-m version 2.2. Kenneth Moreland. Technical Report ORNL/TM-2024/3443, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, July 2024.

The VTK-m User’s Guide, VTK-m version 2.1. Kenneth Moreland. Technical Report ORNL/TM-2023/3182, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, November 2023.

The VTK-m User’s Guide, VTK-m version 2.0. Kenneth Moreland. Technical Report ORNL/TM-2023/2863, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, February 2023.

VTK-m Accelerated Filters in VTK and ParaView. Sujin Philip, Kenneth Moreland, and Robert Maynard. Kitware Source, 2023.

The VTK-m User’s Guide, VTK-m version 1.9. Kenneth Moreland. Technical Report ORNL/TM-2022/2744, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, October 2022.

The Importance of Scientific Visualization on Novel Hardware. Kenneth Moreland, David Pugmire, Berk Geveci, Li-Ta Lo, Hank Childs, Mark Bolstad, Ruchi Shah, and Panruo Wu. Technical Report ORNL/LTR-2022/415, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 2022.

The VTK-m User’s Guide, VTK-m version 1.8. Kenneth Moreland. Technical Report ORNL/TM-2022/2516, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, August 2022.

The Exploitation of Data Reduction for Visualization. Kenneth Moreland, David Pugmire, and Jieyang Chen. Technical Report ORNL/LTR-2022/412, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, August 2022.

The VTK-m User’s Guide, VTK-m version 1.7. Kenneth Moreland. Technical Report ORNL/TM-2021/2346, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, December 2021.

The VTK-m User’s Guide, VTK-m version 1.6. Kenneth Moreland. Technical Report ORNL/TM-2021/2075, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, July 2021.

The VTK-m User’s Guide, VTK-m version 1.5. Kenneth Moreland. Technical Report SAND 2019-12638 B, Sandia National Laboratories, October 2019.

XVis: Visualization for the Extreme-Scale Scientific Computation Ecosystem, Final Report. Kenneth Moreland, David Pugmire, David Rogers, Hank Childs, Kwan-Liu Ma, and Berk Geveci. Technical Report SAND 2019-9297, Sandia National Laboratories, August 2019. doi:10.2172/1762947.

The VTK-m User’s Guide, VTK-m version 1.4. Kenneth Moreland. Technical Report SAND 2019-8008 B, Sandia National Laboratories, July 2019.

In Situ Visualization for Computational Science (Dagstuhl Seminar 18271). Janine C. Bennett, Hank Childs, Christoph Garth, Bernd Hentschel, et al. Dagstuhl Reports, 7, 8(7):1–43, 2019. doi:10.4230/DagRep.8.7.1.

The VTK-m User’s Guide, VTK-m version 1.3. Kenneth Moreland. Technical Report SAND 2018-13465 B, Sandia National Laboratories, November 2018.

Isosurface Visualization Miniapplication. Daniel Bourgeois, Michael Wolf, and Kenneth Moreland. Technical Report SAND2018-2780O, Sandia National Laboratories, 2018.

A Need for Better Management of Heterogenous HPC Resources. Kenneth Moreland and Chuck Atkins. Technical Report Sandia National Laboratories, 2018.

Advanced Scientific Computing Research Exascale Requirements Review. Jeffrey Vetter, Ann Almgren, Phil DeMar, Katherine Riley, Katie Antypas, Deborah Bard, Richard Coffey, Eli Dart, Sudip Dosanjh, Richard Gerber, James Hack, Inder Monga, Michael E. Papka, Lauren Rotman, Tjerk Straatsma, Jack Wells, David E. Bernholdt, Wes Bethel, George Bosilca, Frank Cappello, Todd Gamblin, Salman Habib, Judy Hill, Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth, Lois Curfman McInnes, Kathryn Mohror, Shirley Moore, Ken Moreland, Rob Roser, Sameer Shende, Galen Shipman, and Samuel Williams. Technical Report An Office of Science review sponsored by Advanced Scientific Computing Research, September 2016. doi:10.2172/1375638.

The Future of Scientific Workflows. Ewa Dellman, Tom Peterka, et al. Report of the DOE NGNS/CS Scientific Workflows Workshop, April 2015.

The ParaView Guide: A Parallel Visualization Application. Utkarsh Ayachit. Kitware Inc., January 2015. (contributions). ISBN:978-1-930934-30-6.

The ParaView Tutorial, Version 4.4. Kenneth Moreland. Technical Report SAND2015-7813 TR, 2015.

Implementing Parallel Algorithms Using the Dax Toolkit. Hendrik Schroots and Kenneth Moreland. Technical Report SAND 2015-3829 O, Sandia National Laboratories, December 2014. CR Summer Proceedings.

A Pervasive Parallel Framework for Visualization: Final Report for FWP 10-014707. Kenneth Moreland. Technical Report SAND 2014-0047, Sandia National Laboratories, January 2014.

Data Co-Processing for Extreme Scale Analysis Level II ASC Milestone (4745). David Rogers, Kenneth Moreland, Ron Oldfield, and Nathan Fabian. Technical Report SAND2013-1122, Sandia National Laboratories, 2013.

Enabling Production-Quality Scientific-Discovery Tools with Data and Execution Models. Kenneth Moreland, Jeremy Meredith, and Berk Geveci. Technical Report SAND 2012-10796P, Sandia National Laboratories, December 2012.

Oh, $#*@! Exascale! The Effect of Emerging Architectures on Scientific Discovery. Kenneth Moreland. In 2012 SC Companion (Proceedings of the Ultrascale Visualization Workshop), pages 224–231, November 2012. doi:10.1109/SC.Companion.2012.38.

The SDAV Software Frameworks for Visualization and Analysis on Next-Generation Multi-Core and Many-Core Architectures. Christopher Sewell, Jeremy Meredith, Kenneth Moreland, Tom Peterka, Dave DeMarle, Li-Ta Lo, James Ahrens, Robert Maynard, and Berk Geveci. In 2012 SC Companion (Proceedings of the Ultrascale Visualization Workshop), pages 206–214, November 2012. doi:10.1109/SC.Companion.2012.36.

Report of Experiments and Evidence for ASC L2 Milestone 4467 - Demonstration of a Legacy Application’s Path to Exascale. Brian Barrett, Richard Barrett, James Brandt, Ron Brightwell, Matthew Curry, Nathan Fabian, Kurt Ferreira, Ann Gentile, Scott Hemmert, Suzanne Kelly, Ruth Klundt, James Laros III, Vitus Leung, Michael Levenhagen, Gerald Lofstead, Ken Moreland, Ron Oldfield, Kevin Pedretti, Arun Rodrigues, David Thompson, Tom Tucker, Lee Ward, John Van Dyke, Courtenay Vaughan, and Kyle Wheeler. Technical Report SAND 2012-1750, Sandia National Laboratories, March 2012.

IceT Users’ Guide and Reference, Version 2.1. Kenneth Moreland. Technical Report SAND2011-5011, Sandia National Laboratories, August 2011.

Scientific Discovery at the Exascale. Sean Ahern, Arie Shoshani, Kwan-Liu Ma, et al. Report from the DOE ASCR 2011 Workshop on Exascale Data Management, Analysis, and Visualization, February 2011.

IceT Users’ Guide and Reference, Version 2.0. Kenneth Moreland. Technical Report SAND2010-7451, Sandia National Laboratories, December 2010. doi:10.2172/1005031.

Visualization on Supercomputing Platform Level II ASC Milestone (3537-1B) Results from Sandia. Kenneth Moreland, Nathan Fabian, Pat Marion, and Berk Geveci. Technical Report SAND 2010-6118, Sandia National Laboratories, September 2010.

Scalable Analysis Tools for Sensitivity Analysis and UQ (3160) Results. Lisa Ice, Nathan Fabian, Kenneth D. Moreland, Janine C. Bennett, David C. Thompson, David B. Karelitz, and W. Alan Scott. Technical Report 2009-6032, Sandia National Laboratories, September 2009.

Design Issues for Performing In Situ Analysis of Simulation Data. David Thompson, Nathan D. Fabian, Kenneth D. Moreland, and Lisa G. Ice. Technical Report SAND2009-2014, Sandia National Laboratories, 2009.

Analysis of Fragmentation in Shock Physics Simulation. Kenneth Moreland, C. Charles Law, Lisa Ice, and David Karelitz. In Proceedings of the 2008 Workshop on Ultrascale Visualization, pages 40-46, November 2008. doi:10.1109/ULTRAVIS.2008.5154062.

Post-Processing V&V Level II ASC Milestone (2843) Results. David B. Karelitz, Lisa Ice, Jason Wilke, Stephen W. Attaway, and Kenneth Moreland. Technical Report SAND 2008-6183, Sandia National Laboratories, September 2008.

Large Scale Visualization on the Cray XT3 Using ParaView. Kenneth Moreland, David Rogers, John Greenfield, Berk Geveci, Patrick Marion, Alexander Neundorf, and Kent Eschenberg. In Cray User Group, 2008.

Intelligence Analysis Using Titan. Patricia Crossno, Brian Wylie, Andrew Wilson, John Greenfield, Eric Stanton, Timothy Shead, Lisa Ice, Kenneth Moreland, Jeffrey Baumes, and Berk Geveci. In IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, October 2007.

Massive Graph Visualization: LDRD Final Report. Kenneth Moreland and Brian Wylie. Technical Report SAND 2007-6307, Sandia National Laboratories, October 2007.

Post-Processing V&V Level II ASC Milestone (2360) Results. David B. Karelitz, Elmer Chavez, V. Gregory Weirs, Timothy M. Shead, Kenneth D. Moreland, Thomas A. Brunner, and Timothy G. Trucano. Technical Report SAND 2007-6006, Sandia National Laboratories, September 2007.

Using Ghost Cells in Parallel Filters. Kenneth Moreland. Kitware Source, pages 3–4, July 2006.

Invited Talks and Keynotes

Enabling Visualization at the Exascale with VTK-m. Kenneth Moreland. IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV), October 23, 2023. Keynote. (slides)

Color: What It Is and How to Use It to Show Data. Kenneth Moreland. LANL Data Science Summer School Seminar, Los Alamost National Laboratory, July 18, 2023.

VTK-m: Accelerating Visualization on Massively Threaded Processors. Kenneth Moreland. SCI Institute Visualization Seminar, University of Utah, February 2, 2022.

A Winding Road to Exascale Visualization. Kenneth Moreland. Oak Ridge National Laboratories, February 2, 2021.

Building Better Plots. Kenneth Moreland. CCR Summer Seminar Talks, Sandia National Laboratories, July 17, 2018. (slides)

A Brief History of Interactive Visualization. Kenneth Moreland. University of Stuttgart Colloquium, June 29, 2018.

Preparations for Exascale Visualization at DOE. Kenneth Moreland. ISC High Performance, Visualization and HPC Focus Session, June 25, 2018.

High Performance Visualization in the Many-Core Era. Kenneth Moreland. Computing@PNNL Seminar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, August 11, 2017.

Why You Don’t Want to do In Situ Visualization, and Why You Have To. Kenneth Moreland. ISC Workshop on In Situ Visualization, June 22, 2017. Keynote.

The Many Faces and Solutions of In Situ Visualization. Kenneth Moreland. ISC Workshop on Visualization at Scale, June 22, 2017.

High Performance Visualization in the Many-Core Era. Kenneth Moreland. LANL Information Science and Technology Seminar Series, July 1, 2015.

15 Years of Large-Scale Scientific Visualization. Kenneth Moreland. University of Oregon Colloquium, January 23, 2014.

Big Data, Big Displays, and Cluster-Driven Interactive Visualization. Kenneth Moreland. University of New Mexico Colloquium, November 2002.

Tutorials

ParaView on Frontier Training. Kenneth Moreland. August 29, 2024. (video)

VTK-m – A ToolKit for Scientific Visualization on Many-Core Processors. Tushar M. Athawale, Kenneth Moreland, David Pugmire, Silvio Rizzi, and Mark Bolstad. IEEE VIS Tutorials, October 17, 2022.

ParaView OLCF Tutorial. Kenneth Moreland. September 15, 2022. (video)

In Situ Visualization and Analysis with Ascent: Using VTK-m. Kenneth Moreland. ECP Annual Meeting Tutorials, February 4, 2020.

VTK-m – A ToolKit for Scientific Visualization on Many-Core Processors. Hank Childs, Kenneth Moreland, David Pugmire, and Robert Maynard. IEEE VIS Tutorials, October 2019.

Large Scale Visualization with ParaView. Kenneth Moreland, W. Alan Scott, David E. DeMarle, Joe Insley, John Patchett, and Jon Woodring. Supercomputing Tutorials, November 14, 2017.

Large Scale Visualization with ParaView. Kenneth Moreland, W. Alan Scott, David E. DeMarle, Joe Insley, Jonathan Woodring, and John Patchett. Supercomputing Tutorials, November 14, 2016.

Large Scale Visualization with ParaView. Kenneth Moreland, W. Alan Scott, David DeMarle, Li-Ta Lo, Joseph Insley, and Rich Cook. Supercomputing Tutorials, November 15, 2015.

Large Scale Visualization with ParaView. Kenneth Moreland, W. Alan Scott, David DeMarle, Li-Ta Lo, Joseph Insley, and Robert Maynard. Supercomputing Tutorials, November 16, 2014.

Large Scale Visualization with ParaView. Kenneth Moreland, W. Alan Scott, David DeMarle, and Li-Ta Lo. Supercomputing Tutorials, November 17, 2013.

Large Scale Visualization with ParaView. Kenneth Moreland, W. Alan Scott, Nathan Fabian, Utkarsh Ayachit, and Robert Maynard. Supercomputing Tutorial, November 2012.

Large Scale Visualization with ParaView. Kenneth Moreland, W. Alan Scott, Nathan Fabian, Jeffrey Mauldin, Andrew C. Bauer, Robert Maynard, and Scott Klasky. Supercomputing Tutorials, November 2011.

Large Scale Visualization with ParaView. Kenneth Moreland. SciDAC Tutorials, July 2011.

In-Situ Visualization with the ParaView Coprocessing Library. Kenneth Moreland, Andrew Bauer, Pat Marion, and Nathan Fabian. Supercomputing Tutorials, November 2010.

Large Scale Visualization with ParaView. Kenneth Moreland and Andrew Bauer. SciDAC Tutorials, July 2010.

Large Scale Visualization with ParaView. Kenneth Moreland, John Greenfield, W. Alan Scott, Utkarsh Ayachit, and Berk Geveci. Supercomputing Tutorials, November 2009.

Parallel Distributed-Memory Visualization with ParaView. Kenenth Moreland and David DeMarle. IEEE Cluster Tutorials, August 2009.

Large Scale Visualization with ParaView. Kenneth Moreland, John Greenfield, W. Alan Scott, Utkarsh Ayachit, Berk Geveci, and David DeMarle. Supercomputing Tutorials, November 2008.

Advanced ParaView Visualization. Kenneth Moreland, Utkarsh Ayachit, Timothy Shead, John Biddiscombe, and David Thompson. IEEE Visualization Tutorials, October 2008.

Large Scale Visualization with ParaView 3. Kenneth Moreland and John Greenfield. Supercomputing Tutorials, November 2007.

Parallel Visualization with ParaView. Kenneth Moreland and Berk Geveci. Supercomputing Tutorials, November 2005.

Posters

Visualizing Imaging Data with NDIP and NOVA. John Duggan, Dave Pugmire, Ken Moreland, Greg Watson, Sergey Yakubov, Greg Cage, and Andrew Ayres. In Joint Nanoscience and Neutron Scattering User Meeting, August 2025.

NDIP and NOVA: Workflows and Interfaces for Neutron Scattering. Sergey Yakubov, Greg Watson, Greg Cage, John Duggan, Andrew Ayres, Dave Pugmire, Ken Moreland, Kristin Maroun, and Randall Petras. In Joint Nanoscience and Neutron Scattering User Meeting, August 2025.

Optimizing Threshold for Extreme Scale Analysis. Robert Maynard, Kenneth Moreland, Utkarsh Ayachit, Berk Geveci, and Kwan-Liu Ma. In Proceedings of SPIE Visualization and Data Analysis, 2013. (poster)

Dax: Data Analysis at Extreme. Kenneth Moreland, Utkarsh Ayachit, Berk Geveci, and Kwan-Liu Ma. In Proceedings of SciDAC, July 2011. (poster)

Performance of communication patterns for extreme-scale analysis and visualization. T Peterka, W Kendall, D Goodell, B Nouanesengsey, H-W Shen, J Huang, K Moreland, R Thakur, and R B Ross. In Proceedings of SciDAC, 2010.

Remote rendering for ultrascale data. Kenneth Moreland, Daniel Lepage, David Koller, and Greg Humphreys. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 012096, 125(012096), 2008. (poster)

Presentations

Viskores Update. Kenneth Moreland. HPSF Conference, May 5, 2025.

Parallelize Over Data Particle Advection: Participation, Ping Pong Particles, and Overhead. Zhe Wang, Kenneth Moreland, Matthew Larsen, James Kress, Hank Childs, and David Pugmire. DOE Computer Graphics Forum, May 1, 2025.

Viskores Update. Kenneth Moreland. DOE Computer Graphics Forum, April 29, 2025.

Compression Support with ADIOS. Kenneth Moreland, Qian Gong, and Norbert Podhorszki. Data-driven Plasma Science and Engineering Workshop, February 27, 2025.

Development of VTK-m During ECP. Kenneth Moreland. HPC Best Practices Webinar, September 25, 2024. (slides)

Using VTK-m in ParaView and Catalyst. Kenneth Moreland. ParaView and Catalyst CASS Community BOF, June 12, 2024.

Data Management, Workflow, and Visualization Solutions at ORNL. Kenneth Moreland, Scott Klasky, Norbert Podhorszki, and Qian Gong. Software for the NASA Science Mission Directorate Workshop, May 8, 2024.

VTK-m Update. Kenneth Moreland. DOE Computer Graphics Forum, April 23, 2024.

VTK-m: Visualization for the Exascale Era and Beyond. Mark Bolstad, Kenneth Moreland, David Pugmire, David Rogers, Li-Ta Lo, Berk Geveci, Hank Childs, and Silvio Rizzi. ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Talks, August 2023.

VTK-m Update. Kenneth Moreland. DOE Computer Graphics Forum, April 26, 2023.

DOE Visualization Tools and Capabilities. Kenneth Moreland and David Pugmire. PSI2 SciDAC All-Hands, February 22, 2023.

Performance Portability Pre-ECP and Post-ECP – VTK-m. Kenneth Moreland. ECP Annual Meeting, January 19, 2023.

Scientific Visualization on Supercomputers. Kenneth Moreland. D&AI Section All Hands Meeting, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 21, 2022.

VTK-m Update. Kenneth Moreland. DOE Computer Graphics Forum, August 31, 2022.

ECP Data Management, Data Analytics, and Visualization Overview: VTK-m. Kenneth Moreland. ECP Annual Meeting, May 2, 2022.

VTK-m: What it is, Why we need it, and How to use it. Kenneth Moreland. November 2021. (slides)

Color: What it is and How to Use It to Show Data. Kenneth Moreland. VISTA Webinar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 9, 2021. (slides)

Enabling Visualization on Exascale Accelerators with VTK-m. Kenneth Moreland. RAPIDS2-DU Monthly Meeting, July 14, 2021.

VTK-m Update. Kenneth Moreland. DOE Computer Graphics Forum, April 28, 2021.

ECP Data Management, Data Analytics, and Visualization Overview: VTK-m. Kenneth Moreland. ECP Annual Meeting, March 30, 2021.

What’s New in ParaView. Kenneth Moreland. DOE Computer Graphics Forum, April 28, 2020.

VTK-m Update. Kenneth Moreland. DOE Computer Graphics Forum, April 28, 2020.

Vis Capabilities at Sandia. Kenneth Moreland. Informal Review for 1540 Production Codes, Sandia National Laboratories, June 10, 2019.

What’s New in ParaView. Kenneth Moreland. DOE Computer Graphics Forum, April 23, 2019.

VTK-m Update. Kenneth Moreland. DOE Computer Graphics Forum, April 23, 2019.

In Situ Visualization and Analysis with Ascent: Using VTK-m. Kenneth Moreland. ECP Annual Meeting Tutorials, January 17, 2019.

What’s New in ParaView. Kenneth Moreland. DOE Computer Graphics Forum, April 24, 2018.

VTK-m Update. Kenneth Moreland. DOE Computer Graphics Forum, April 24, 2018.

The Difficulties and Indispensability of In Situ Visualization. Kenneth Moreland. Applied Computer Science (ACS) Technical Exchange Meeting, February 13, 2018.

VTK-m: Visualization on Modern Processors. Kenneth Moreland. Kitware Booth, SC17, November 15, 2017.

Why You Don’t Want to do In Situ Visualization, and Why You Have To. Kenneth Moreland. Computational Science Seminar Series, Sandia National Laboratories, October 31, 2017.

Building Better Plots. Kenneth Moreland. Sandia Post-Doc Workshop, Sandia National Laboratories, February 20, 2017. (slides)

VTK-m: Building a Visualization Toolkit for Massively Threaded Architectures. Kenneth Moreland. Ultrascale Visualization Workshop, November 17, 2015.

Maintaining Interactivity in ParaView. Kenneth Moreland. Kitware SC Booth, November 19, 2014.

HPC Processing in ParaView. Kenneth Moreland. Kitware SC Booth, November 18, 2014.

Using ParaView. Kenneth Moreland. NERSC Joint Facilities User Forum on Data-Intensive Computing, June 18, 2014.

Dax: A Massively Threaded Visualization and Analysis Toolkit for Extreme Scale. Kenneth Moreland and Robert Maynard. GPU Technology Conference, March 26, 2014.

Approaching Production In Situ Visualization for Extreme Scale Analysis. Kenneth Moreland, Ron Oldfield, Nathan Fabian, Berk Geveci, Andrew Bauer, and David Lonie. 16th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, February 21, 2014.

Using Color in Your Diagrams and Presentations. Kenneth Moreland. Sandia Center 2700 Lunch and Learn Program, 2014.

Next-Generation Capabilities for Large-Scale Scientific Visualization. Kenneth Moreland, Nathan Fabian, Berk Geveci, Utkarsh Ayachit, and James Ahrens. 15th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, February 15, 2012.

Flexible In Situ with ParaView. Kenneth Moreland, Nathan Fabian, Scott Klasky, and Berk Geveci. Workshop on Ultrascale Visualization, November 13, 2011.

Large-Scale Interactive Visualization with ParaView. Kenneth Moreland. 2nd International Conference on Computational Engineering, October 6, 2011.

Large Scale Visualization with Cluster Computing. Kenneth Moreland. Linux Cluster Institute Workshop, October 1, 2004.

Big Data, Big Displays, and Cluster-Driven Interactive Visualization. Kenneth Moreland. Workshop on Commodity-Based Visualization Clusters, October 27, 2002.

Panels

Lessons Learned from Porting Codes to GPUs. ECP Annual Meeting, January 19, 2023.

Technical Advances in the Era of Big Data Analysis and Visualization: Large-Scale Visualization on Exascale Hardware. Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV), October 25, 2020.

How Ubiquitous Parallel Devices Affect Visualization. Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV), May 25, 2020.

10-year Prognostication and How Do We Get There?. DOE Computer Graphics Forum, April 25, 2018.

Color Mapping in Vis: Perspectives on Optimal Solutions. IEEE Visualization, October 2015.