InsitUE - Enabling Hybrid In-situ Visualizations through Unreal Engine and Catalyst

In-situ, in-transit, and hybrid approaches have become well-established visualization methods over the last decades. Especially for large simulations, these paradigms enable visualization and additionally allow for early insights. While there has been a lot of research on combining these approaches with classical visualization software, only a few worked on combining in-situ/in-transit approaches with modern game engines. In this paper, we present and demonstrate InsitUE, a Catalyst2 compatible hybrid workflow that enables interactive real-time visualization of simulation results using Unreal Engine.
@InProceedings{10.1007/978-3-031-73716-9_33,
author="Kr{\"u}ger, Marcel
and Milke, Jan Frieder
and Kuhlen, Torsten W.
and Gerrits, Tim",
editor="Weiland, Mich{\`e}le
and Neuwirth, Sarah
and Kruse, Carola
and Weinzierl, Tobias",
title="InsitUE - Enabling Hybrid In-situ Visualizations Through Unreal Engine and Catalyst",
booktitle="High Performance Computing. ISC High Performance 2024 International Workshops",
year="2025",
publisher="Springer Nature Switzerland",
address="Cham",
pages="469--481",
abstract="In-situ, in-transit, and hybrid approaches have become well-established visualization methods over the last decades. Especially for large simulations, these paradigms enable visualization and additionally allow for early insights. While there has been a lot of research on combining these approaches with classical visualization software, only a few worked on combining in-situ/in-transit approaches with modern game engines. In this paper, we present and demonstrate InsitUE, a Catalyst2 compatible hybrid workflow that enables interactive real-time visualization of simulation results using Unreal Engine.",
isbn="978-3-031-73716-9"
}