National Computational Science Alliance The Alliance Visualization Program Talk given to Sandia and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories February 19, 1998 National Computational Science Alliance The Alliance National Technology Grid - Prototyping the 21st Century Infrastructure National Computational Science Alliance Visual Supercomputing Goal: Make Analysis as Powerful as Simulation Colliding Galaxies (Smithsonian IMAX)-Donna Cox, Bob Patterson, NCSA-From Cosmic Voyage-Nominated for Academy Award 1997 Virtual Director in CAVE 1000 Hour SDSC Supercomputer Run to Generate Data Tens of Thousands of Hours of NCSA SGI Time to Render Data Cross-Country Transfer to IMAX Film of Massive Amounts of Data National Computational Science Alliance Alliance Visualization Development and Deployment Partners National Computational Science Alliance Alliance Visualization Technologies Interactive Immersive Discovery Tom DeFanti, EVL, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago Asynchronous High Resolution Analysis Paul Woodward, LCSE, Univ. of Minnesota Collaborative Virtual Environments Rick Stevens, MCSD, Argonne Nat. Lab. Computational Steering Chris Johnson, Univ. of Utah National Computational Science Alliance Visual Immersive Environments - The University of CAVE National Computational Science Alliance Caterpillars Distributed Virtual Reality Data courtesy of Valerie Lehner, NCSA, 1996 National Computational Science Alliance Using Intranet Technologies to Form Alliance Electronic CommunitiesFeatures/feature_CAVERNUS.html CAVE and ImmersaDesk Systems Hypernews Forums User Lists Application Galleries Shared Programs National Computational Science Alliance Collaborative Virtual Environment - Environmental Modeling ImmersaDesks vBNS DREN SGI Onyx (NCSA) Integrated M-Bone Videoteleconferencing John Shalf,Polly Baker NCSA; Mike Stephens and Carl Cerco, CEWES SGI Onyx (Old Dominion) SGI Onyx (U. Wisc) Coupling Chesapeake Bay Simulations and Databases SGI Onyx (CEWES) Vicksburg, MS National Computational Science Alliance HydroNet -- Alliance vBNS Collaboration Grid Robert Patterson, NCSA National Computational Science Alliance Narrative, Immersive, Constructivist/Collaborative Environments (NICE) Jason Leigh-EVL, UIChttp://www.ice.eecs.uic.edu/~nice/ National Computational Science Alliance Tele-Immersion Networking Requirements Source: Tom DeFanti (UIC), Rick Stevens (ANL) National Computational Science Alliance Terabyte Digital Playback of High Res. Data - Analysis of Turbulent Fluid Using the Power Wall Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering, Univ. of Minnesota National Computational Science Alliance Putting a Window in the Supercomputer Oven- Coupling the vBNS to Scalable Computing Porter, Anderson, Habermann, Ruwart, & Woodward, LCSE,Nov Data Moved From NCSA over vBNS to U Minnesota- Visualization at SC97 While Week Long Simulation Runs at NCSA vBNS Gives 100-Fold Thruput Increase Over Commercial Internet! Surface ViewInterior View Evolution of a Red Giant with White Dwarf Core National Computational Science Alliance Alliance National Technology Grid Workshop and Training Facilities Powered by Silicon Graphics Linked by the NSF vBNS Jason Leigh and Tom DeFanti, EVL; Rick Stevens, ANL National Computational Science Alliance Visual Computational Steering - The University of Utah SCIRun Chris Johnson, SCI, Univ. of Utah National Computational Science Alliance SCIRun Example Combustion C-SAFE SCIRun Network Chris Johnson, SCI, Univ. of Utah National Computational Science Alliance NCSA Visualization Tool Development AVS, VTK Volumetric Analysis VRML Code Visualization Server Push Haptic Interface Digital Video MPEG Streaming Desktop CAVE National Computational Science Alliance Visual Supercomputing - Blast Damage to Buildings Polly Baker, Randy Heiland and Dave Bock, NCSA Raju Namburu, Mike Stephens, CEWES, Kent Eschenberg, Nichols Research Corp DOD Modernization PET Program CTH for Blast, DYNA3D for Structure Response Used SGI/Cray T3E, C90, Origin, Onyx, Octane National Computational Science Alliance Emergence of Large Scale Structure Using Traditional MPP Supercomputer Source: Greg Bryan, Mike Norman, NCSA 512x512x512 Run on 512-node CM-5 Evolution Fly Thru National Computational Science Alliance NCSA CRUMBS Used for Volumetric Visualization of Star Formation Simulation Source: Balsara and Brady, NCSA National Computational Science Alliance Use of Shared Memory Adaptive Grids - Alliance Cosmology Team Source: Greg Bryan, Mike Norman, John Shalf, NCSA 64x64x64 Run with Seven Levels of Adaption on SGI Power Challenge, Locally Equivalent to 8192x8192x8192 Resolution National Computational Science Alliance NCSA Visualization -- VRML Viewers John Shalf on Greg Bryan Cosmology AMR Data National Computational Science Alliance Information Visualization of Executing Parallel Software Dan Reed, UIUC CS National Computational Science Alliance NCSA Visualization -- Server Push TechnologyPolly Baker and David Bock, NCSA Particles Moving Through Flow Field Computed on SGI Octane Realtime Viewing Using Web Browser on Win95 PC National Computational Science Alliance NCSA Habanero - Collaborative Support for Scientific Teams Image Courtesy of Ken Bishop (U Kansas) Alliance Chem. Eng. Team National Computational Science Alliance SGI Desktop Environment for Molecular Docking Visual, Auditory, and Haptic Info. on Bonding Ported to ImmersaDesk; Simulation on SGI Origin Ruth Pachter, ASC/AFRL; Polly Baker, NCSA Visual Supercomputing -- Adding Touch to Virtual Environments DOD Modernization PET Program ASC Comp. Chemistry & Materials Team National Computational Science Alliance Alliance Researchers Using a Digital Video Computational Infrastructure = Digital Video Streams Digital Video Server Internet, vBNS Habanero Teams Create Digital Video Animation Concurrently with Supercomputing CAVE Virtual Director Individual Desktops Desktop Video Teleconferencing National Computational Science Alliance Alliance Virtual Environments Tools - Linking CAVE to Vis5D = CAVE5D Interactive visualizations of time-varying, 3-dimensional Vis5D data sets in CAVE environments National Computational Science Alliance Using NCSAs Virtual Director in CAVE5D to Create a Digital Video Output Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, Stuart Levy, NCSAVirtual Director Team National Computational Science Alliance Using CAVE5D with NCSAs Virtual Director to Analyze Chesapeake Bay Simulations Alliance Environmental Hydrology Applications Team Glen Wheless and Cathy Lascara, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Old Dominion University Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, Stuart Levy, NCSAVirtual Director Team Fish Larvae at Mouth of the Bay 15 Day Period Salinity (Red-High, Yellow-Low) National Computational Science Alliance NCSAs Virtual Director in CAVE5D Three-Way Collaboration Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, Stuart Levy, NCSAVirtual Director Team National Computational Science Alliance Thunderstorm Batch Process Scientific Visualization Simulation of a Severe Thunderstorm Wilhelmson and Arrott et al. NCSAMS_Study-Numerically-Modeled-Severe-Storm-Wilhelmson.html National Computational Science Alliance Thunderstorm - Tornado Simulation Analysis in the CAVE using Virtual Director Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, Stuart Levy, NCSA Virtual Director Team Bruce Lee & Bob Wilhelmson, Simulation Yellow Iso = Vorticity Trajectories = Wind Flow Grey Iso = Rainwater Cloud