[ogb-discuss] Proposal for an opensolaris Visualization project

[Linda Fellingham]

We would like to propose a new opensolaris project.

Project: Visualization for HPC.
Community support: HPC Developers Community (see attached email)
Participants:
Dean Stanton (leader)
Steve Nash (leader)
Linda Fellingham (contact person)
Shefali Bhargava
Allen Chen
Darrell Commander
Qinghuai Gao
Paul Ramsey

Description:
Visualization technologies are widely used within the HPC community to
enable better understanding of the ever 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, and OpenMPI, plus pre-compiled binaries, 
installation and configuration scripts, and documentation on how to put 
a large-scale visualization system together. A second goal of the 
proposed visualization project is to provide software for enabling 
remote visualization and collaboration. 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.

Related Projects:
opensolaris.org:
OpenFabrics User Verbs - may provide improved performance to scalable 
viz stack.

other Open Source:
OFED - component of scalable viz software stack (Linux)
Chromium - component of scalable viz software stack
OpenMPI - component of scalable viz software stack
MVAPICH2 - component of scalable viz software stack (Linux)
ParaView - component of scalable viz software stack
OpenSceneGraph - component of scalable viz software stack
Grid Engine - component of shared viz software stack
VirtualGL - component of shared viz software stack
TurboVNC- component of shared viz software stack

Sun products:
Sun Grid Engine - delivered by Grid Engine team
ClusterTools - delivered by Solaris Platform Software RPE team
Shared Visualization - delivered by Advanced Visualization team through 
graphics consolidation
Scalable Visualization solutions - delivered by Advanced Visualization 
team through graphics consolidation

Other information:
One of the problems facing HPC customers who want to use Solaris is the 
lack of applications available to them. Providing easy access to Solaris 
binaries of popular open source visualization applications will be 
another benefit of this project.
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Linda Fellingham x49322  Ph:(650)472-9561
Advanced Visualization Group, Sun Microsystems
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