1. Web Development by Mark Mizubayashi Program Manager Tim Fahey
Project Supervisor
Kevin P. Roe
Thomas Meyer
Maui High Performance Computing Center
Center for Adaptive Optics
2006 Akamai Internship Program

2. Background MHPCC produces high resolution weather forecasts
Supports AMOS (Air Force Maui Optics & Supercomputing site)
Giving more accurate/detailed forecasts than the National Weather Service
Forecasts are posted daily on MHPCC’s public website

3. Motivation
The weather web page is examined by everyone from telescope operators to the general public.
Readability
Web page needs to be easy to understand by professionals and non-professionals

4. Motivation cont. Portability Email security
Web page needs to be viewable by all internet capable devices i.e. not just broadband desktops, but less powerful and smaller devices.
security
Integrating a contact page using PHP so robots cant acquire for nefarious purposes

5. Motivation cont. Cross-platform
Web page must be viewable by multiple browsers such as Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc…..

6. Implementation Readability
Detailed description of weather fields being displayed
Clear graphics
Organized pages

7. Implementation cont. Portability Layout of web page is minimalistic
No excessively large graphics
Preloading of images limits details on small screens
Use of pull down menus

8. Implementation cont. Email security
Use of PHP script to prevent unwanted web crawler access.

9. Page Layout

10. Page Layout cont.

11. Conclusion Readability Portability Email security Cross-Platform
Any user can navigate through easily
Portability
Able to be viewed by smaller devices such as cell phones
security
Prevents robots from accessing information
Cross-Platform
Designed to work across multiple browsers

12. Future Work
Change from JavaScript of multiple PNG images to flash or shockwave animation
3D interpretation of data using Vis5d

13. Special Thanks Center for Adaptive Optics MHPCC MEDB MCC
Malika Bell, Lisa Hunter, Hilary O’Bryan
MHPCC
Tim Fahey, Kevin P. Roe, Thomas Meyer
MEDB
Isla Yap, Leslie Wilkins
MCC
Mark Hoffman
Funding provided through the Center for adaptive Optics, a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center (STC), AST