Significantly Improving Lossy Compression Quality based on an Optimized Hybrid Prediction Model

Abstract

With the ever-increasing volumes of data produced by today's large-scale scientific simulations, error-bounded lossy compression techniques have become critical: not only can they significantly reduce the data size but they also can retain high data fidelity for postanalysis. In this paper, we design a strategy to improve the compression quality significantly based on an optimized, hybrid prediction model. Our contribution is fourfold. (1) We propose a novel, transform-based predictor and optimize its compression quality. (2) We significantly improve the coefficient-encoding efficiency for the data-fitting predictor. (3) We propose an adaptive framework that can select the best-fit predictor accurately for different datasets. (4) We evaluate our solution and several existing state-of-the-art lossy compressors by running real-world applications on a supercomputer with 8,192 cores. Experiments show that our adaptive compressor can improve the compression ratio by 112∼165% compared with the second-best compressor. The parallel I/O performance is improved by about 100% because of the significantly reduced data size. The total I/O time is reduced by up to 60X with our compressor compared with the original I/O time.

Meeting Name

International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC '19 (2019: Nov. 17-19, Denver, CO)

Department(s)

Computer Science

Comments

This research was supported by the Exascale Computing Project (ECP), Project Number: 17-SC-20-SC

Keywords and Phrases

Compression Performance; Data Dumping/Loading; Error-Bounded Lossy Compression; Rate Distortion

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

978-145036229-0

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

2167-4329; 2167-4337

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

Document Version

Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2019 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

17 Nov 2019

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