Scientific Visualization Workshop

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Scientific Visualization Workshop
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Visualization Workshop Overview

• Erik Brisson
• ebrisson_at_bu.edu

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Schedule

• 1100 30 min Intro / overview (Erik Ray)
• 1130 20 min Hardware and software solutions
  (Erik)
• 1150 30 min "Focus group" getting feel for
  problems to solve (All)
• 1220 30 min --- lunch break ---
• 1250 60 min VTK and Paraview (Ray)
• 150 15 min Plotting (Robert, Aaron, Ray)
• 205 20 min Image proc for sci vis, and
  making animations (Aaron)
• 225 10 min --- break ---
• 235 30 min Matlab and IDL (Erik)
• 305 20 min OpenGL, OpenSceneGraph, and Maya
  for sci vis (Erik)
• 325 15 min DAFFIE and the display wall
  (Erik)
• 340 10 min Survey to use for future
  decision making (All)
• 350 10 min Conclusion
• 400 Done (up to Open House)

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BU Scientific Computing Visualization
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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

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SCV as a service group

• SCV lt OIT lt UIST
• CCS (Center for Computational Science)
• SCV functional subgroups
• Systems Administration
• Scientific Programming
• Graphics Programming and Consulting

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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)

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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

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Artworld family portrait
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Example - stereo protein visualization 1
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Example - stereo protein visualization 2
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Example - magnetosphere
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Example medical illustration
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Example medical visualization
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Example bat flight
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Example GIS
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Examples Tornado animations

• http//access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Stories/supertwister/p
  age3.htm
• http//access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Stories/supertwister/i
  ndex.htm

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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

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The Visualization Pipeline
Math Proc Scientific visualization
Computer Graphics
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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
  http//www.answers.com/topic/scientific-visualizat
  ion
• Visualization Pipeline diagram
• http//www.infovis-wiki.net/index.php/Visualizatio
  n_Pipeline
• Magnetosphere

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Image 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, 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