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The Alliance Visualization Program

The Alliance Visualization Program. Talk given to Sandia and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories February 19, 1998. The Alliance National Technology Grid - Prototyping the 21st Century Infrastructure. Visual Supercomputing Goal: Make Analysis as Powerful as Simulation.

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The Alliance Visualization Program

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  1. The Alliance Visualization Program • Talk given to Sandia and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories • February 19, 1998

  2. The Alliance National Technology Grid - Prototyping the 21st Century Infrastructure

  3. Visual Supercomputing Goal:Make Analysis as Powerful as Simulation • Virtual Director in CAVE • 1000 Hour SDSC Supercomputer Run to Generate Data • Tens of Thousands of Hours of NCSA SGI Time to Render Data • Cross-Country Transfer to IMAX Film of Massive Amounts of Data Colliding Galaxies (Smithsonian IMAX)-Donna Cox, Bob Patterson, NCSA-From “Cosmic Voyage”-Nominated for Academy Award 1997

  4. Alliance Visualization Development and Deployment Partners

  5. Alliance Visualization Technologies • Interactive Immersive Discovery • Tom DeFanti, EVL, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago • Asynchronous High Resolution Analysis • Paul Woodward, LCSE, Univ. of Minnesota • Collaborative Virtual Environments • Rick Stevens, MCSD, Argonne Nat. Lab. • Computational Steering • Chris Johnson, Univ. of Utah

  6. Visual Immersive Environments - The University of Illinois@Chicago CAVE

  7. Caterpillar’s Distributed Virtual Reality Data courtesy of Valerie Lehner, NCSA, 1996

  8. Using Intranet Technologies to Form Alliance Electronic Communities • CAVE and ImmersaDesk Systems • Hypernews Forums • User Lists • Application Galleries • Shared Programs http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Indices/Spotlight/ Features/feature_CAVERNUS.html

  9. Collaborative Virtual Environment -Environmental Modeling Coupling Chesapeake Bay Simulations and Databases ImmersaDesks DREN SGI Onyx (CEWES) Vicksburg, MS vBNS SGI Onyx (NCSA) SGI Onyx (U. Wisc) SGI Onyx (Old Dominion) Integrated M-Bone Videoteleconferencing John Shalf,Polly Baker NCSA; Mike Stephens and Carl Cerco, CEWES

  10. HydroNet -- Alliance vBNS Collaboration Grid Robert Patterson, NCSA

  11. Narrative, Immersive, Constructivist/Collaborative Environments (NICE) Jason Leigh-EVL, UIC http://www.ice.eecs.uic.edu/~nice/

  12. Tele-Immersion Networking Requirements Source: Tom DeFanti (UIC), Rick Stevens (ANL)

  13. Terabyte Digital Playback of High Res. Data -Analysis of Turbulent Fluid Using the Power Wall Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering, Univ. of Minnesota

  14. Putting a Window in the Supercomputer Oven- Coupling the vBNS to Scalable Computing Evolution of a Red Giant with White Dwarf Core Surface View Interior View Data Moved From NCSA over vBNS to U Minnesota- Visualization at SC97 While Week Long Simulation Runs at NCSA vBNS Gives 100-Fold Thruput Increase Over Commercial Internet! Porter, Anderson, Habermann, Ruwart, & Woodward , LCSE,Nov. 1997

  15. Alliance National Technology GridWorkshop and Training Facilities Powered by Silicon Graphics Linked by the NSF vBNS Jason Leigh and Tom DeFanti, EVL; Rick Stevens, ANL

  16. Visual Computational Steering -The University of Utah SCIRun Chris Johnson, SCI, Univ. of Utah

  17. SCIRun Example Combustion C-SAFE SCIRun Network Chris Johnson, SCI, Univ. of Utah

  18. AVS, VTK Volumetric Analysis VRML Code Visualization Server Push Haptic Interface Digital Video MPEG Streaming Desktop CAVE NCSA Visualization Tool Development

  19. Visual Supercomputing - Blast Damage to Buildings DOD Modernization PET Program CTH for Blast, DYNA3D for Structure Response Used SGI/Cray T3E, C90, Origin, Onyx, Octane Polly Baker, Randy Heiland and Dave Bock, NCSA Raju Namburu, Mike Stephens, CEWES, Kent Eschenberg, Nichols Research Corp

  20. Emergence of Large Scale Structure Using Traditional MPP Supercomputer Fly Thru Evolution 512x512x512 Run on 512-node CM-5 Source: Greg Bryan, Mike Norman, NCSA

  21. NCSA CRUMBS Used for Volumetric Visualization of Star Formation Simulation Source: Balsara and Brady, NCSA

  22. Use of Shared Memory Adaptive Grids -Alliance Cosmology Team 64x64x64 Run with Seven Levels of Adaption on SGI Power Challenge, Locally Equivalent to 8192x8192x8192 Resolution Source: Greg Bryan, Mike Norman, John Shalf, NCSA

  23. NCSA Visualization --VRML Viewers http://infinite-entropy.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Projects/AmrWireframe/ John Shalf on Greg Bryan Cosmology AMR Data

  24. Information Visualization of Executing Parallel Software Dan Reed, UIUC CS

  25. NCSA Visualization -- Server Push Technology Particles Moving Through Flow Field Computed on SGI Octane Realtime Viewing Using Web Browser on Win95 PC http://woodall/dbock/projects/RemoteViewIndex.html Polly Baker and David Bock, NCSA

  26. NCSA Habanero - Collaborative Support for Scientific Teams Image Courtesy of Ken Bishop (U Kansas) Alliance Chem. Eng. Team

  27. Visual Supercomputing --Adding Touch to Virtual Environments SGI Desktop Environment for Molecular Docking Visual, Auditory, and Haptic Info. on Bonding Ported to ImmersaDesk; Simulation on SGI Origin DOD Modernization PET Program ASC Comp. Chemistry & Materials Team Ruth Pachter, ASC/AFRL; Polly Baker, NCSA

  28. = Digital Video Streams Alliance Researchers Using a Digital VideoComputational Infrastructure CAVE Virtual Director Habanero Teams Desktop Video Teleconferencing Internet, vBNS Individual Desktops Create Digital Video Animation Concurrently with Supercomputing Digital Video Server

  29. Alliance Virtual Environments Tools - Linking CAVE to Vis5D = CAVE5D Interactive visualizations of time-varying, 3-dimensional Vis5D data sets in CAVE environments http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/VR/cavernus/CAVE5D/Cave5d.html

  30. Using NCSA’s Virtual Director in CAVE5D to Create a Digital Video Output Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, Stuart Levy, NCSAVirtual Director Team

  31. Using CAVE5D with NCSA’s Virtual Director to Analyze Chesapeake Bay Simulations Alliance Environmental Hydrology Applications Team Glen Wheless and Cathy Lascara, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Old Dominion University Fish Larvae at Mouth of the Bay 15 Day Period Salinity (Red-High, Yellow-Low) Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, Stuart Levy, NCSAVirtual Director Team

  32. NCSA’s Virtual Director in CAVE5D Three-Way Collaboration Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, Stuart Levy, NCSAVirtual Director Team

  33. Thunderstorm 1988 - Batch Process Scientific Visualization Simulation of a Severe Thunderstorm Wilhelmson and Arrott et al. NCSA http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SCMS/Metascience/Articles/ MS_Study-Numerically-Modeled-Severe-Storm-Wilhelmson.html

  34. Thunderstorm - Tornado SimulationAnalysis in the CAVE using Virtual Director Yellow Iso = Vorticity Trajectories = Wind Flow Grey Iso = Rainwater Cloud Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, Stuart Levy, NCSA Virtual Director Team Bruce Lee & Bob Wilhelmson, Simulation

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