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PV-WAVE Overview and Usage Seminar by Visual Numerics Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research April 14, 2004. Overview of Visual Numerics, Inc. Pam Seymour Sr. Education Account Representative. About Visual Numerics. Established in 1970; privately held
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PV-WAVE Overview and Usage Seminarby Visual NumericsMississippi Center for Supercomputing ResearchApril 14, 2004 www.vni.com
Overview of Visual Numerics, Inc.Pam SeymourSr. Education Account Representative www.vni.com
About Visual Numerics • Established in 1970; privately held • Over 30 years experience delivering trusted technology solutions for understanding data • Computational techniques for analyzing data • quantitative analysis • Visual techniques for spotting trends / anomalies in data • qualitative analysis • Offices worldwide • USA, UK, France, Germany, Mexico, Japan, Korea, Taiwan • International distributor network • Fortune 100 accounts around the globe and well over 500,000 users worldwide
We Keep… …Satellites in Space Satellite Signal Analysis …the Population Healthy MRI Imaging & Human Genome …Aircrafts in Flight Boeing Flight Test …Engines Performing Diesel Engine Safety Testing …the Navy Afloat Weather Mapping & Storm Tracking …the Air Clean EPA Pollution Studies …Stock Markets Humming Forecasting & Risk Analysis …Oil Flowing Oil & Gas Exploration
Corporate Intellectual Capital • Proprietary algorithm development & porting process • Legacy of analysis/visualization software expertise • Many developers have tenure of 10, 20 and over 25 years • Decades of experience developing Visual Data Analysis (VDA) technology & custom applications across a broad set of industries • Ph.D.s in mathematics and statistics and deep expertise in industry & technical specialties • WW ties with university professors and researchers
Auto & Manufacturing DoD & Gov. Energy Telecom Education Aerospace Financial Services British Petrol. Chevron Exxon Shell Oil Aramco Tokyo Power Hydro Quebec Manitoba Hydro Pegasus Schlumberger • MCSR • Harvard • Univ. of London • Stanford • MIT • Virginia Tech • ETH • Cornell • Purdue Lehman Brothers Deutsche Bank JPMorganChase Swiss Bank UBS Warburg Bear Stearns Barclays SSB Invesco AT&T Airtouch Motorola Deutsche Tel Northern Tel Siemens Alcatel Vodafone Aerospatiale British Aerospace Dornier Airbus Industries Boeing Lockheed Martin Northrop Grumman Aerospace Corp GE Texas Inst. HP Caterpillar BMW Chrysler Ford GM Hughes Raytheon Sandia Labs DERA (UK) US Air Force Center for Disease USGS EPA US Army Visual Numerics provides the foundation for mastering data and leveraging information. Flagship Customers by Industry
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IMSL™ Numerical Libraries • IMSL C Numerical Library (CNL) • Written in C • Over 370 threadsafe, math, stat and finance algorithms • JMSL™ Numerical Library for Java™ Programmers • 100% Java with IMSL numerics and charting • IMSL Fortran Numerical Library • Over 1,000 world-renowned algorithms • High Performance Computing
PV-WAVE Family PV-WAVE • Language for building desktop visual data analysis applications • Understand and visualize data JWAVE • Web based software • Understand what data means from anywhere, at anytime TS-WAVE • Time Series Analysis application
Technical Consulting Services • Custom Algorithm and Application Development • Ongoing Interaction with Customers to Maintain and Improve Applications • Diverse Backgrounds and Expertise • Computer Scientists • Industry experts • Visual Data Analysis (VDA) experts • PhDs in various disciplines including math and stat • Combination of Training and Consulting Expertise
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IMSL™ Fortran Numerical Library • Industry standard mathematics and statistics algorithm library • Optimized for multiprocessor and other high-performance systems • Over 30 years of algorithm development and refinement • Divided into Math, Math Special Functions and Statistics (called Stat) • Version 5.0 released January, 2003
IMSL™ C Numerical Library (CNL) • Written in C to leverage C features of the C language • Callable from C++ • Represents about 70% of the functionality in FNL • Thread-safe • Version 5.5 released in December, 2003
The JMSL™ Numerical Library • Complete collection of mathematical, statistical and charting classes • Written in 100% Java™ • Thread-safe • Naturally suited for collaboration and sharing across the enterprise • Version 2.5 released in June, 2003
PV-WAVE Advantage • Fully structured, easy to use array oriented programming language • Used by engineers, scientists, business analysts, researchers, and software developers • Development solutions to rapidly import, manipulate, visualize, and analyze data • Includes a sophisticated set of analysis routines based upon the IMSL C Numerical Library • Free online training available
What is PV-WAVE? Easy to use software Quickly understand and visualize Rich development framework
Advantages of PV-WAVE Data Analysis Data comes in all sizes and shapes Quickly and easily analyze and process complex data Visualization Understand your data Uncover valuable insights
Advantages of PV-WAVE Test and Measurement Compare and measure differences Analyze time series data Forecast trends Models and Simulation Quickly build models Run simulations on real or generated data sets
Advantages of PV-WAVE • Mathematics and Statistics • IMSL Libraries • Tested and proven • Research and Development • Accelerate development • Rapid prototyping
Full suite of graphics routines for 1D, 2D, 3D, ... nD visualization Data Visualization Environment
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Data Visualization Environment To complex visualizations
Full range of mathematical and statistical tools for analyzing transforming filtering manipulating simulating validating large data sets. Data Analysis Environment
Data Communication Environment A comprehensive suite of tools for communicating information by • importing • exporting • presenting • managing large data sets.
Application Development Environment • Advanced full featured programming language • Suite of reusable objects • PV-WAVE code generation
What’s New for PV-WAVE 8.0 • New Charting Functions • New Optimization Routines • XML and HDF5 File Format Capability • Double-precision Plotting • Common Windows Dialogs • Multi-processor Support for Solaris (Open MP)
What’s New for PV-WAVE 8.0 • New Charting Functions • New Optimization Routines • XML and HDF5 File Format Capability • Double-precision Plotting • Common Windows Dialogs • Multi-processor Support for Solaris (Open MP)
Analysis Functions • Optimization • Addition of a new nonlinear constrained optimization algorithm • Key for meeting new federal emissions testing requirements • Multidimensional polynomial evaluation and fitting • Commonly called curve fitting and is used by a wide variety of business and technical applications • Create fitted surfaces as easily as fitted curves • Remove warping and distortion from images
File Formats • XML • Import, interrogate, modify, create and export XML data • HDF5 • Import and export HDF5 files • HDF5 is an emerging standard for technical data
OpenMP • Multiprocessor Support for Solaris using OpenMP • OpenMP is a hardware and software vendor supported specification designed to standardize compiler directives required to implement scalable parallelized code for shared-memory multi-processor systems
Conclusion • PV-WAVE: • Saves you time and expense • Enables you to quickly create data analysis applications
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