SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008

Scientific Visualization WorkshopScientific Visualization Workshop

SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008

Erik Brisson

ebrisson@bu.edu

Visualization Workshop OverviewVisualization Workshop Overview

ScheduleSchedule 11:00 30 min Intro / overview (Erik & Ray) 11:30 20 min Hardware and software solutions (Erik) 11:50 30 min "Focus group" getting feel for problems to solve (All) 12:20 30 min --- lunch break --- 12:50 60 min VTK and Paraview (Ray) 1:50 15 min Plotting (Robert, Aaron, Ray) 2:05 20 min Image proc for sci vis, and making animations (Aaron) 2:25 10 min --- break --- 2:35 30 min Matlab and IDL (Erik) 3:05 20 min OpenGL, OpenSceneGraph, and Maya for sci vis (Erik) 3:25 15 min DAFFIE and the display wall (Erik) 3:40 10 min Survey to use for future decision making (All) 3:50 10 min Conclusion 4:00 Done (up to Open House)

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BU Scientific Computing & VisualizationBU Scientific Computing & Visualization

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SCV ProvidesSCV Provides

High-performance, parallel computing systems and networks

Scientific code parallelization and optimization Scientific data visualization High-performance and high-resolution interactive

three-dimensional graphics Virtual environments/virtual reality Consulting and training Network-based video conferencing and

collaboration tools

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SCV as a service groupSCV as a service group

SCV < OIT < UISTCCS (Center for Computational

Science)SCV functional subgroups– Systems Administration– Scientific Programming– Graphics Programming and Consulting

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SCV Supercomputing HistorySCV Supercomputing History

Thinking Machines CM-2 (1988) Thinking Machines CM-5 (1992) SGI Origin2000 (2000) IBM pSeries (2002) IBM Linux Cluster (2003) IBM BlueGene (2005) IBM BladeCenter Linux Cluster (2007)

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Other SCV activitiesOther SCV activities

Working with large BU projects– CISM, ATLAS, Earlab

Working with external partners– Mariner, PACI, NASA

Education and Outreach– HiPArt, BPC, IMAX

Arts– BU CFA, CyberArts, SIGGRAPH, Lost in Space

Annual Supercomputing conference

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Artworld “family portrait”Artworld “family portrait”

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Example - stereo protein visualization 1 Example - stereo protein visualization 1

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Example - stereo protein visualization 2Example - stereo protein visualization 2

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Example - magnetosphereExample - magnetosphere

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Example – medical illustrationExample – medical illustration

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Example – medical visualizationExample – medical visualization

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Example – bat flightExample – bat flight

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Example – GISExample – GIS

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Examples – Tornado animationsExamples – Tornado animations

http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Stories/supertwister/page3.htm

http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Stories/supertwister/index.htm

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EvolutionEvolution

Scientific illustration The rise of computer graphics Expensive, specialized equipment General purpose sci vis software The workstation Personal computers Video game hardware Domain specific packages Supercomputing

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The Visualization PipelineThe Visualization Pipeline

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Math Proc Scientific visualization Computer Graphics

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Image creditsImage credits

ArtWorld Family Portrait– Kat Curry / SCV

Stereo protein visualization 1 and 2– Dr Bernhard Rupp, Lawrence Livermore National

Laboratory and Dr Karl H Weisgraber, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease http://www.answers.com/topic/scientific-visualization

Visualization Pipeline diagram– http://www.infovis-wiki.net/index.php/

Visualization_Pipeline

Magnetosphere

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Image credits, continuedImage credits, continued

Magnetosphere– AICT Research Support Group, Univ. of Alberta

Medical illustration, standing male figure– www.posemaniacs.com

Medical illustration, synapse– Graham Johnson, Graham Johnson Medical Media,

Boulder, Colorado

Medical Visualization– Dr, Kai-hung Fung, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern

Hospital, Hong Kong

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Image credits, continuedImage credits, continued

Bat flight– D J Willis (Brown, MIT)– M Kostandov, D K Riskin, D H Laidlaw, S M Swartz, K S

Breuer (Brown)– J Peraire (MIT)

Example – GIS of radio transmission– ESRI GIS and Mapping Software, www.esri.com

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