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Welcome to SCV http://scv.bu.edu. Erik Brisson Associate Director Scientific Computing and Visualization Group Boston University. Boston University. Over 30,000 students From 50 states, 141 countries Over 3,400 faculty About 5,500 non-faculty staff Grants and contracts - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Welcome to SCV

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Welcome to SCV http://scv.bu.edu

Erik BrissonAssociate Director

Scientific Computing and Visualization GroupBoston University

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Boston University

• Over 30,000 students– From 50 states, 141 countries

• Over 3,400 faculty• About 5,500 non-faculty staff• Grants and contracts

– 1,457 totaling $250.4 million

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Scientific Computing and Visualization Group

• Work in collaboration with BU’s CCS (Center for Computational Science)

• National supercomputer resource• Graphics / virtual reality lab• Access Grid• Consulting, programming, special projects

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Supercomputing Resources

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Supercomputing Resources

• IBM p690– 112 processors (583 GFLOPs)

• IBM RS6000/SP– 64 processors (96 GFLOPs)

• SGI Origin 2000– 192 processors (75 GFLOPs)

• IBM x330 Linux cluster– 104 processors (200 GFLOPs)

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Graphics / Virtual Reality Lab

• Deep Vision Display Wall• ImmersaDesk• SGI graphics workstations• IBM Intellistations

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Graphics Software

• OpenGL• Stanford’s WireGL / Chromium• SGI Performer• Alias | Wavefront Maya

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DAFFIE• Distributed Applications Framework For

Immersive Environments • Virtual worlds described by a network

protocol• 3D graphics viewer with navigation• Participants represented as avatars• Telephony over high speed network• Video and audio streams over high speed

network

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Deep Vision Display Wall

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Deep Vision Display Wall

• High resolution• Current: 2048x1536 pixels• Will be: 4096x2304 pixels

• Driven by 24 IBM Intellistations• 24 projectors

• 12 tiles per eye• Passive stereo• Commodity hardware

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The Access Grid

Image adapted from Terry Disz, Argonne National Laboratory

KISTI

NCSA

U of Manchester

U of Sydney

Purdue University

Argonne

The Grid

Boston University

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BU Access Grid Facility

• Has held more than 150 events since spring 2000, including:– Workshops– Conferences– Formal and informal meetings

• Boston University is active in worldwide Access Grid deployment, training, and event planning

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The Access Grid

• Collaboration tools to enable human interaction across the computational grid– Several visualization tools have been

integrated with the Access Grid, including BU’s DAFFIE environment

– Future AG software releases will include API for increasing integration with other grid services

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Visit Schedule

• 9:30am Meet in B17• 9:35am- 9:50am Overview• 9:50am-10:10am AG demo• 10:15am-10:45am Wall / IDesk

demo• 10:45am-11:00am Machine room

or discussion