1. Visualization Efforts at San Diego Supercomputer center Amit Chourasia Visualization Scientist Visualization Services Presented to: SCEC-CME All Hands Meeting June 2005

2. Visualization Services ► Steve Cutchin (Supervisor) ► Alex Decastro ► Amit Chourasia

3. Past Work with SCEC ► Rupture Dynamics Simulation ► Frechet Kernel Simulation ► LA Basin Simulation ► TeraShake 1, 2 & 3 ► Puente Hills Simulation

4. Tangible Numbers ► 55 Different animations ► Over 80,000 images ► Above 14,000 CPU hours on Datastar ► Above 12,000 CPU hours on Teragrid ► 2d Surface, 3d Topography and volume rendering techniques

5. Tools we use ► Vista (SDSC/NPACI) ► Mesh Viewer (SDSC/NPACI) ► Alias’s Maya & Image Studio ► Adobe’s suite (After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator)

6. Strengthen Collaboration ► Enabling Services – SCEC to utilize the tools and techniques demonstrated ► Work more closely with seismologists ► Define requirements - Current Viz not enough ? Need more ? what ? - Current Viz not enough ? Need more ? what ?

7. Whats Coming ► Visualization portal Web Browser> Upload Data > Apply viz template > Run job > Download images/movie ► Improved Volumetric renderings ► Zoom, slice and dice features ► Novel techniques to aid understanding

8. Does Visualization help? How visualizations are being utilized ? ► What – Features ? ► Where – Publication/News/Magazines ? ► Why – instead of numbers ? Please let us know! ► Ensures what works and what doesn’t ► Helps us in requesting resources ► Helps us in allocating resources

9. New Viz ► TeraShake4 ► QTVR

10. Thanks for your patience!

11. ? - ? - Website to visit http://visservices.sdsc.edu/ Drop a line to amit sdsc.edu