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LBNL Site Report DOECFG 2003 April 28, 2003

Wes Bethel

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The Group

Regular Staff: Wes Bethel, John Shalf, Cristina Siegerist, Ken Schwartz, Silvia Crivelli.

Faculty Appointments: Bernd Hamann (UCD), Ken Joy (UCD), Nelson Max (UCD, LLNL), Ilmi Yoon (SFSU).

Term Staff: Xia Liu, Praveen Shetty.

Students: Oliver Kreylos (UCD), Chris Co (UCD), Nameeta Shah (UCD), TJ Jankun-Kelly (UCD), James Chen (UCD).

Amorphous Relationships: David Hoffman (MSRI), Mark Hoffman (MSRI), Gunther Weber (UCD).

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Last Year Activities• LBL

– Dissolution of overhead support for visualization.

• NERSC– New SGI.– Focus on helping SciDAC projects with vis.– The N3E surprise.

• Base Program– Birth of Diva.– Visapult SCXX BWC Hat Trick

• Fun Stuff– Shalf’s Frankenstein display system.

• Equipment– ORNL stole our equipment money for the Cray X-1

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Accelerator SciDAC

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LDRD Activities

• Protein Folding

• Multiple genome sequence visualization.

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Upcoming Year Activities• Base Program

– Diva prototype, show something at SC? (WTF is Diva? Irritable soprano?)

– Domain-neutral multi-res data model (so Wes can write some code)

– Latency tolerant vis/graphics/rendering.

• NERSC– Continued SciDAC support.

– Closer coupling between vis and other center operations.

– Better web-based documentation, user outreach.

• Acquisitions– Shark racks.

– Opteron-based experimental cluster? SGI Altix?

• Testing– Sun’s Zulu card.

– ATI Radeon 9700 loaners.

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What’s New?

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Rumors (Unconfirmed) and Gossip

• SC03 – There will be two DOE booths at SC03: – ASCI and SciDAC

• Diva – “I’d like to see this become the Visualization ISIC in SciDAC.” - a DOE Program Manager.