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Towards Decoupling the Selection of Compression Algorithms from Quality Constraints ? An Investigation of Lossy Compression Efficiency

Julian Martin Kunkel    
Anastasiia Novikova    
Eugen Betke    

Resumen

Data intense scientific domains use data compression to reduce the storage space needed. Lossless data compression preserves information accurately but lossy data compression can achieve much higher compression rates depending on the tolerable error margins. There are many ways of defining precision and to exploit this knowledge, therefore, the field of lossy compression is subject to active research. From the perspective of a scientist, the qualitative definition about the implied loss of data precision should only matter.With the Scientific Compression Library (SCIL), we are developing a meta-compressor that allows users to define various quantities for acceptable error and expected performance behavior. The library then picks a suitable chain of algorithms yielding the user?s requirements, the ongoing work is a preliminary stage for the design of an adaptive selector. 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 characteristics of tolerable noise, from the task of determining an optimal compression strategy. Future algorithms can be used without changing application code.In this paper, we evaluate various lossy compression algorithms for compressing different scientific datasets (Isabel, ECHAM6), and focus on the analysis of synthetically created data that serves as blueprint for many observed datasets. We also briefly describe the available quantitiesof SCIL to define data precision and introduce two efficient compression algorithms for individualdata points. This shows that the best algorithm depends on user settings and data properties.

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