SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008 Scientific Visualization Workshop

SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008 Erik Brisson Visualization Workshop Overview

Schedule 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 :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) SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008

BU Scientific Computing & Visualization SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008

SCV 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 SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008

SCV as a service group SCV < OIT < UIST CCS (Center for Computational Science) SCV functional subgroups –Systems Administration –Scientific Programming –Graphics Programming and Consulting SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008

SCV 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) SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008

Other 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 SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008

Artworld “family portrait” SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008

Example - stereo protein visualization 1 SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008

Example - stereo protein visualization 2 SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008

Example - magnetosphere SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008

Example – medical illustration SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008

Example – medical visualization SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008

Example – bat flight SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008

Example – GIS SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008

Examples – Tornado animations page3.htm page3.htm ndex.htm ndex.htm SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008

Evolution 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 SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008

The Visualization Pipeline SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008 Math Proc Scientific visualization Computer Graphics

Image 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 Visualization Pipeline diagram – wiki.net/index.php/Visualization_Pipelinehttp:// wiki.net/index.php/Visualization_Pipeline Magnetosphere SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008

Image credits, continued Magnetosphere –AICT Research Support Group, Univ. of Alberta Medical illustration, standing male figure – Medical illustration, synapse –Graham Johnson, Graham Johnson Medical Media, Boulder, Colorado Medical Visualization –Dr, Kai-hung Fung, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, Hong Kong SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008

Image 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, SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008