High Performance Visualization Center Initiative (HPVCI)

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High Performance Visualization Center
Initiative(HPVCI)
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HPVCI Program Management
Major Shared Resource Center, Code 0TC Naval
Oceanographic Office 1002 Balch Boulevard Stennis
Space Center, MS 39522-5001
Program Manager Mr. Eigoro Hashimoto 228 688
5294 hashimot_at_navo.hpc.mil
Deputy Program Manager Ms. Beverly Bradley 228
688 4697 bradleyb_at_navo.hpc.mil
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Briefing Outline

• Assumptions
• Goals
• Approach
• Structure / Participants
• FY-99 Tasking

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Assumptions

• High Performance Visualization Center Initiative
  (HPCVI) sponsors efforts to develop high-end
  visualization
• - Tools - Capabilities
• - Algorithms - Demonstrations
• HPVCI is intended to connect DoD with research
  universities within the State of Mississippi

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HPVCI Goals

• Develop a DoD visualization infrastructure that
  will
• Establish comparable capabilities in
  visualization at each participating institution
• Establish a distributive visualization network
  between the performing institutions and the
  MSRC/NAVOCEANO Visualization Center

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HPVCI Goals (continued)

• Develop a DoD visualization infrastructure that
  will
• Enable research scientists to conduct and perform
  visualization RD in support of DoD via Remote
  Access
• Allow participating universities to tailor
  academic offerings to the need, interests, and
  benefit of agencies at SSC

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Approach

• Enhance, encourage, and improve collaborative
  immersive-like high performance visualizations
• Encourage distance education, learning, and
  training
• Develop remote access and distributive network
  infrastructure

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DoD HPCMO
Congressional Action
CNMOC
State of Mississippi
HPVCI
High Performance Visualization Center Initiative
State Bond
_at_ MSRC / NOO
For ACCESS Physical Facility
Mississippi Research Consortium (MRC)
USM/CHL
MSU
JSU
UM
RD Issues and Specific Tasks
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FY-99 Tasking
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Initial Year (FY-99 Funding)

• Implement and execute program
• Initiate development of visualization tools
• Acquire necessary hardware
• Identify and establish connections to other
  distance learning/training/education efforts

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Jackson State University - FY-99

• Collaborative Scientific Visualization
• Distance Training/Education
• Complex Information Presentation and Delivery
• Development of Hierarchical Storage Management
  and Shared File Systems Capabilities

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Mississippi State University - FY-99

• Integrated System
• Remote Visualization
• SGI Solution, VAIL Solution for Distributed /
  Remote Rendering

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MSU Technical Highlights - FY-99

• Data Manager Development
• Potential application for the control of various
  data types, sets, subsetting, and formatting.
• c-thru Remote Visualization Software
• Provides a collaborative, immersive research
  environment which can be used by all academia and
  industry, and by DoD.
• Potential for National Technology Transfer.

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University of Southern Mississippi / Center for
Higher Learning - FY-99

• Establish an Immersive Visualization Laboratory
• Manipulation of Large Geophysical Data Sets
• Establish Technology Transfer Procedures

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University of Southern Mississippi / Center for
Higher Learning

• ACCESS
• Physical facility for on-site SSC academia to
  perform immersive visualizations.

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USM/CHL Immersive Visualization Lab

• ACCESS (5000 sq. feet)
• Alliance Center for Collaborative Education
  Science and Software
• with NCSA at University of Illinois
• National Center for Supercomputing Applications

NCSA Technical Strengths Virtual Reality Lab,
CAVE, ImmersaDesk, Infinity Wall, Mosaic, Web
Browser Development
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Remote Visualization / Education / Distant
Training / Distant Learning
NOO / MSRC SSC, MS

• JSU / MSU / USM / CHL
• Navy Postgraduate School
• AG Schools
• PDC
• NAS Det

METOC Regional Centers
FNMOC Monterey, CA
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Contacts

• FNMOC
• NPMOC
• NPS, Dr. Wm. Garwood
• NRL-SSC, Dr. John Harding
• NRL-M, Dr. Ted Tsui
• ONR, Dr. Scott Sandgathe

• B-School, Gulfport
• NAS Pensacola, CDR Soper (OIC)
• NLMOC, CAPT Bosse
• Professional Development Center (PDC), CDR Best

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FY-00 Tasking
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Second Year (FY-00 Funding)

• Investigate potential integration/coupling issues
  for visualization capabilities, models, and
  databases
• Continue development of new visualization
  capabilities and algorithms
• Establish collaborative/distributive scientific
  visualization capabilities between universities

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Collaborative / Distributive Access
JSU
MSRC / NOO
MSU
USM / CHL