P15: Toward Decoupling the Selection of Compression
Algorithms from Quality Constraints
SessionPoster Reception
Event Type
ACM Student Research Competition
Poster
Reception
TimeTuesday, November 14th5:15pm -
7pm
LocationFour Seasons Ballroom
DescriptionWith the Scientific Compression Library (SCIL), we are
developing a meta-compressor that allows users to set
various quantities that define the acceptable error and
the expected performance behavior. The library then
chooses the appropriate chain of algorithms to yield the
users requirements. This approach is a crucial step
towards a scientifically safe use of much-needed lossy
data compression, because it disentangles the tasks of
determining scientific ground characteristics of
tolerable noise, from the task of determining an optimal
compression strategy given target noise levels and
constraints. Without changing applications, it allows
these codes to utilize future algorithms once they are
integrated into the library.
