SAGE - Pushing the Envelope, like usual!

The SAGE BOF was interesting. EVL and the SAGE group pushing the boundaries like usual! Nice work Jason, Luc, Maxine, Sungwon, and Ratko (and the rest of the SAGE community).

Some very impressive streaming results from SARA and some interesting work with CalIT2, CINEGrid, and Disney. Nice integration with ParaView and SAGE to stream parallel ParaView session to SAGE wall. Also, nice discussion of user interface issues in designing for wall based use cases.

Factors:

• Thin bezels important to usability.
  
• Reachable for interaction.
• Visiblity for large audiences.
• Mobility
  
• Touch screens - good for detail, localized interaction, tiring for longer work.
• Gyromouse - standing but no need to walk back and forth
• Comfort - use of laptops, sitting around, interacting with desktops
• Video conferencing
• Mapping content between remote sites
  
• Touch screen interface over very large tiled display - VERY nice!
• Argonne and nVidia booth on demo
  

Definitely worth going to the booths for Kaust (Booth 2247), SARA, Argonne (Booth 2513) and others to see the SAGE demos.

Whats Next? SAGENext - Single node SAGE portals makes it usable to MANY users! Enabling cloud applications such as Google Services (like anything cloud, I am not quite sure what this means 8-)... Coming to you for SC 2011!

What's in a name - Ultrascale Visualization

The 5th Ultrascale visualization workshop at SC 2010 is focused on visualization at the exascale. What a great name - Ultrascale Visualization is always current - visualization of data at the largest scale and never requiring a name change. The key question: How do you deal with exascale computation when it is too expensive (in terms of time and power) to move the raw data off of the machine. Is in-situ visualization the way of the future?

Jazz on Bourbon Street

I suppose one can't spend time in New Orleans without mentioning the great Jazz and crazy atmosphere on Bourbon Street. Arrived late Saturday night but managed to find a great live band, playing for free in a small plaza just off Bourbon Street. Great tunes!

Paraview Coporcessing Library

Paraview now has a co-processing library, designed to allow computational codes to perform "in-situ" visualization "easily". I didn't sit through this tutorial in it entirety, but it looks like an interesting capability for those that want to visualize without writing data to disk and/or transferring data to a local visualization machine.

Still requires the author of the computational code to transform data to VTK objects, but given the fact that data sets are becoming larger we may see this more and more.

CUDA Tutorial

CUDA Programming + Optimization - my head hurts!!!

Blog is back - SC 2010 in New Orleans

I'm backkkkk... This time at SC 2010 in New Orleans.

First things first, here is a list of the activities that I think are interesting at SC this year. Of course none of this includes stuff on the exhibition floor. Not sure how I will fit it all in!