Various visualization methods based on out-of-core technology have been
introduced to deal with large datasets whose sizes exceed the capacity of
local memory on a single desktop PC. However, the visualization of pathlines
for huge, time-varying datasets on a single machine is not feasible with
naive methods due to the low hit ratio of a general cache system based on
LRU. In this paper, we propose a novel cache management strategy which relies
on the processes of data pre-fetch and cache evacuation. We also evaluate the
proposed method using a real-world flow dataset. Our experiments show that
the proposed pre-fetch method increases the cache hit ratio whereas an
evacuation strategy decreases the re-fetch ratio.