http://vistools.npaci.edu/ http://visservices.npaci.edu/

Scientific Visualization @

San Diego Supercomputer Center

Presenter: Amit Chourasia

Visualization Services Group

Steve Cutchin (Manager) Alex Decastro Amit Chourasia

Visualization Services

• Visualization Production Services• Gaming Grid for Education and Research• Visualization Training

Relevant Resources Computing

Teragrid (1.3 Tflops) Blue horizon (1.7

Tflops)

Storage Archives GPFS (512 TB) HPSS (6 PB) SRB (middleware -

manages 20 TB)

Viz Tools Vista Mesh Viewer VizGrid (near

future) Customized Maya

Dev.

Vista - scalable and robust volume renderer

64 bit & SRB - support

Render any size volume using out of core paging

Multi-threaded No limits on output resolution Custom camera position

Show viz

Current Visualization schema

Launch terminal

SRB Archive / GPFS TeraGrid/Cluster with Vista

Input (volume)

Output (image)

Work in progress

Improved transfer function (Vista)

Unstructured data visualization

VizGrid (contd..)

VizGrid – Web based Click n Render paradigm

Workstation Alley

VizGrid Gallery SRB Archive

Grid ServicesVizGrid Portal

Input

Output

Results

Task selection

Upload data

Farm/cluster

Login

User Interaction Automated

Thanks!

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