[hpcdev-discuss] Visualization project proposal

[Linda Fellingham]

I would like to propose a Visualization project.

Visualization technologies are widely used within the HPC community to
enable better understanding of the every larger data sets that computer
simulations and sensor networks are creating.

Many tools for scalable visualization (defined as harnessing the
capability of multiple graphics devices to deal with very large data
sets) are available in the open source community, primarily deployed on
Linux and Windows platforms. One goal of the Visualization project on
opensolaris.org is to provide a complete integrated and tuned stack of
software for scalable visualization on Solaris. The initial stack
consists of Chromium, ParaView, OpenSceneGraph, Open Fabric, and
MVAPICH2/OpenMPI, plus pre-compiled binaries, installation and configuration
scripts, and documentation on how to put a large-scale visualization
system together.

Another goal of the proposed visualization project is to provide
software for enabling remote visualization and collaboration.
Increasingly, science and engineering teams are geographically
distributed. As data sets grow, it is inconvenient and costly to move
these large data sets around. Software for shared visualization (defined
as software for allowing remote clients to run applications on servers
with hardware-accelerated 3D rendering with high performance, sharing
the resources on the server, and allowing access to a visualization
session by multiple clients) will be provided. The initial software
stack will consist of VirtualGL, TurboVNC, and scripts that allow for
the easy integration with Sun Grid Engine to manage graphics resources
on a grid of visualization servers.
Pre-compiled binaries, installation and configuration
scripts, and documentation will also be provided.

Participants include:
linda.fellingham at sun.com
shefali.bhargava at sun.com
darrell.commander at sun.com
qinghuai.gao at sun.com
steve.nash at sun.com
paul.ramsey at sun.com
dean.stanton at sun.com


Thanks,
Linda
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