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Brains to Bays --Scaleable Visualization Toolkits

Brains to Bays --Scaleable Visualization Toolkits. Arthur J. Olson Interaction Environments Thrust Area Leader Professor, Molecular Biology The Scripps Research Institute La Jolla, CA. Evolution of Alpha Project. IE Thrust Area Vision User Community feedback State of art challenges

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Brains to Bays --Scaleable Visualization Toolkits

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  1. Brains to Bays --Scaleable Visualization Toolkits Arthur J. Olson Interaction Environments Thrust Area Leader Professor, Molecular Biology The Scripps Research Institute La Jolla, CA

  2. Evolution of Alpha Project • IE Thrust Area Vision • User Community feedback • State of art challenges • Successful projects/prototypes • Successful and important applications • Strong inter-thrust linkages

  3. IE Thrust Area Vision Provide a customizable collaborative scientific computing environment to explore data, facilitate simulation, and communicate ideas in groung-breaking research

  4. User Community Feedback • #1 Priority --Visualization Toolkits • Aid in the exploration of scientific data and simulations • Communicate results to the broader community • Scaleable from desktop to teraflop systems

  5. Important Infrastructure Challenge • Large DataVisualization • Parallel Visualization-- computing resources • Interactive Navigation -- client/server control • Compression/processing -- out-of-core manipulation • Combining data at multiple scales

  6. Successful projects/prototypes • IE Thrust • MPIRE -massively parallel volume rendering -- SDSC • VisualEyes -- multi-modal visualization and analysis toolkit -- U. Texas • Déjà vu -- platform independent viewing component -- TSRI

  7. Successful and important applications • Brain mapping -- Understanding the nature of the human brain -- Toga, Ellisman, et al. • Ocean modeling -- Simulating and predicting the long range nature of global climate change -- Wunsch, et al.

  8. Strong Cross Thrust Linkages • Data Intensive -- SRB, MCAT, XML • Metasystems -- Legion • Parallel Tools -- ADR, KELP • EOT -- Materials transfer for teaching

  9. Successful projects/prototypes • IE Thrust • MPIRE -massively parallel volume rendering -- SDSC • VisualEyes -- multi-modal visualization and analysis toolkit -- U. Texas • Déjà vu -- platform independent viewing component -- TSRI

  10. Technology MPIRE: Massively Parallel Interactive Volume Rendering (Genetti,Johnson SDSC) • Interactive, Distributed • Direct Volume Rendering -- ray casting & splatting

  11. Processing Elements 160 192 224 256 Average Time(s) 14.8 12.4 10.6 9.2 Millions of voxels/s 225 258 302 350 Technology MPIRE - Parallel Performance9 Gbyte data set on T3E Visible Female Data Set

  12. Successful projects/prototypes • IE Thrust • MPIRE -massively parallel volume rendering -- SDSC • VisualEyes -- multi-modal visualization and analysis toolkit -- U. Texas • Déjà vu -- platform independent viewing component -- TSRI

  13. Technology VisualEyes Interrogative Visualization (Bajaj, Utexas)

  14. Technology Accelerated IsoContouring(VolVis’96)

  15. Technology The Contour Spectrum(IEEE Viz’97) • The contour spectrum allows the development of an adaptive ability to separate interesting isovalues from the others. r

  16. Successful projects/prototypes • IE Thrust • MPIRE -massively parallel volume rendering -- SDSC • VisualEyes -- multi-modal visualization and analysis toolkit -- U. Texas • Déjà vu -- platform independent viewing component -- TSRI

  17. Technology Deja Vu / Python Provides Client Viewing and Manipulation (Olson,Sanner) • Object oriented • Component based • Execution centric • Inter-operable • Platform Independent Deja vu

  18. Technology Rapid Application Development withViewer component technology • Concise Code • Interactive development • GUI support • integration of existing applications

  19. Successful and important applications • Brain mapping -- Understanding the nature of the human brain -- Toga, Ellisman, et al. • Ocean modeling -- Simulating and predicting the long range nature of global climate change -- Wunsch, et al.

  20. Testbed application Brain Structure and Function (Toga,UCLA) THE CHALLENGE OF FUNCTIONAL CORRELATIONS THE CHALLENGE OF MULTIPLE SCALES

  21. Testbed application Each Brain Represents a lot of Data AND COMPARISONS MUST BE MADE BETWEEN MANY

  22. Testbed application Federate existing DBs Today: 1 brain 10 Gbytes With Teraflops: comparisons of multiple brains, several Pbytes

  23. Successful and important applications • Brain mapping -- Understanding the nature of the human brain -- Toga, Ellisman, et al. • Ocean modeling -- Simulating and predicting the long range nature of global climate change -- Wunsch, et al.

  24. Testbed application Oceanographic Simulations on a Planetary Scale (Wunsch, MIT;Stammer, SIO) • Goal: Understanding the ocean’s role in climate variability • Will provide a complete global-scale ocean state estimation over 15 year period (1985-2000) • CFD simulations constrained by satellite altimetry and other observational data • Porting to MPP platforms (IBM SP, Teraflops) • Challenging time-dependent visualization

  25. Testbed application Oceanographic Simulations -- Large Data Visualization With Teraflops: 0.5o Latitude, Longitude 200 GBytes Today: 2o Latitude, Longitude 2 GBytes

  26. Milestones for Alpha Project: Brains to Bays -- FY00 • Harden and extend MPIRE , VisualEyes ,Deja Vu • Extend Interaction architecture for volume data • Develop APIs and GUIs for SRB , implement “data floor plan” in KELP and ADR • Integrate viz toolkits within Legion metasystem. • Initiate visualization production in collaboration with EOT for educational use • Generateandtest large-scale multi-modal volumetric data sets w/viz-toolkits

  27. Milestones for Alpha Project: Brains to Bays -- FY01 • Distribute and test MPIRE, VisualEyes, and Deja Vu to several sites • Implement advanced toolkit architecture that supports volumetric scene graph constructs • Demonstrate remote parallel volume rendering over multi-site NPACI resources • Develop training and technical documentation on the viz toolkits for wide distribution • Produce scientific visualizations in collaboration with EOT for integration into school curricula

  28. DATA AND MODEL VISUALIZATION PARALLEL VOLUME VISUALIZATION LARGE DATA NAVIGATION COLLABORATIVE INTERACTION FEDERATED BRAIN DATA MULTI-SCALE NEURO-STRUCTURE SINGLE MODE BRAIN DATA MULTI-MODAL OCEAN SIMULATIONS INTERACTIVE STEERING OF OCEAN SIMULATIONS EDUCATION/ OUTREACH/ TRAINING SINGLE TIME SLICE OCEAN SIMULATION Advancing Visualization & Exploration 1999 2000 2001 2002 ADR Deja Vu SHASTRA/ICE MPIRE LEGION KELP SRB/API’s DOCUMENTATION VisualEyes PTE IE Neuroscience Earth System Science DICE Metasystems

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