Progress since Year 1 NSF Site Visit

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Progress since Year 1 NSF Site Visit

• OptIPuter Visualization Cluster
• Software installations projects
• Educational Programs
• Continued visual objects development
• Outreach efforts

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OptIPuter Visualization Cluster
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OptIPuter Visualization Cluster

• Production rebuild of cluster
• Viz cluster was rebuilt after site visit to
  stabilize the system
• Software available
• Juxtaview
• Used for viewing imagery for Lake Tahoe, San
  Diego wildfires, etc.
• Vol-a-tile

IGPP researchers use Chromium on the OptIPuter
Visualization Cluster to explore Fledermaus scene
files
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OptIPuter Visualization Cluster

• More software/tools
• Chromium
• Used to display Fledermaus scene files on the Big
  Berthas
• Vis5D
• Used for Christine Reifs isosurface
  visualization.
• Generic Mapping Tools
• To be used for Sandwell and Fialkos INSAR work

The OptIPuter Visualization Cluster, only the 10
IBM machines are shown here.
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Future Work

• Work with EVL to improve Volatile
• Work with EVL to make Juxtaview geo-friendly
• Devise techniques to incorporate the temporal
  evolution of data. Capability not available in
  Fledermaus - need for new software.
• Use STARLIGHT servers for distribution of visual
  objects
• Deployment of Geowall 2 at IGPP

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Future Work

• Possibility of working with the ARGO group for
  real time ocean observation (http//www.argo.ucsd.
  edu)
• Porting current Fortran codes to work on the
  cluster
• Yuri Fialko, Renee Bulow, Dave Sandwell
• Continue work on seismic visualization techniques
  like Wiggleview and Seismoglyphs

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Education Programs at SIO
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2003 Student Visualization Contest

• High quality visualizations were submitted,
  examples
• simulated velocity structure during an earthquake
  rupture
• seismic slices of ocean basins in the Gulf of
  Mexico and North Carolina
• Martian data Incongruities and geology
• Pacific seamount composition
• sound generated by earthquakes

Prize winners and entrants at the 2003 Viz
Contest. Oct 1, 2003
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Novel uses of VizCenter resources by graduate
students

• German Prieto
• Creating movie for AGU 2003 talk on 'Earthquake
  source scaling and self-similarity estimation by
  stacking P and S spectra'
• Jenna Munson
• TA for UCSD undergraduate class Introduction to
  Earth and Environmental Sciences brings students
  to the VizCenter as part of curriculum.
• Carrie Nishimura
• Animation of flooding of Gusev crater on Mars
• http//mahi.ucsd.edu/rbulow/mars.html
• Kerry Key
• Uses VizCenter to present electrical conductivity
  images of the oceanic crust as part of his PhD
  thesis defense

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Educational Programs

• Tom Garrison and his honors class visited the SIO
  VizCenter.
• author of one of the largest-selling
  undergraduate textbooks on oceanography titled
  Oceanography An Invitation to Marine Science
• The group explored multiple geophysical datasets
  (e.g., Mars, Seismicity distributions both global
  and local, and Lake Tahoe)
• Ocean Institutes, Dana Point
• Geowall exhibition at the Teachers Gala, Oct
  2003
• Possibility of a Geowall installation

Tom Garrisons class visits the VizCenter Nov
19,2003.
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SIO Visual Objects Continued Development and
Distribution

• New visual objects
• Monterey bay
• Quakes around the world (updated)
• Lake Tahoe
• Mars topography
• La Jolla
• Potential users
• UCLA
• Princeton
• Alaska Seismic Network
• Cal State Fullerton

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Future Work

• Participation in the Northridge Earthquake 10th
  Anniversary National Workshop, Caltech
• Second Teacher Workshop on Earthquake education
• Teach the Teachers workshop planned in Summer
  2004
• Geowall exhibition at Birch Aquarium
• Grade school students expected to visit the Birch
  Aquarium for a week

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Outreach efforts
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Outreach Efforts

• International visitors from Shell Oil Company
• Considered use of Geowall on oil platforms
• Honorable Dana Rohrabacher (R-Orange County) and
  his scientific consultant Augie Dunning visited
  the visualization laboratory. Dr. Dave Pierce and
  Dr. Tim Barnett, from SIO's Climate Research
  Division, briefed them on the results of the
  Accelerated Climate Prediction Initiative (ACPI).
• WebEx (co-founders of Cal-(IT)2 and leaders in
  collaboration technology)

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Collaborations

• NCSA
• NSF
• Department of Structural Engineering, JSOE
• UCI
• UCSB
• SCEC
• UNR
• CalTrans

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Papers and Abstracts

• AGU 2003 Abstracts
• Prieto, G. A., Shearer, P., Kilb, D.,Vernon, F.
  Earthquake source scaling and self-similarity
  estimation by stacking P and S spectra
• Kilb, D., Reif, C., Keen, C S., Smith, B.,
  Mellors, R J Development of 3D interactive
  visual objects using the Scripps Institution of
  Oceanography's Visualization Center
• Reif, C., Masters, G., .Flanagan, M., Shearer, P.
  Understanding the Mantle Through the Curious
  Topography on the 410 Discontinuity
• Newman, R. L., Kilb, D., Nayak, A., Kent, G.
  The Role of Research Institutions in Building
  Visual Content for the Geowall
• Nayak, A M, Lindquist, K., Kilb, D., Newman, R.,
  Vernon, F. et al Using 3D Glyph Visualization to
  Explore Real-time Seismic Data on Immersive and
  High-resolution Display System
• Jacobs, A M, Harding, A J, Kent, G M, Collins, J
  A Along-Axis Crustal Structure of the Lau
  Back-Arc Basin From Multichannel Seismic
  Observations
• Schwehr, K., Driscoll, N., Tauxe, L., Lee, H J.
  Exploration of the Humboldt Slide using
  Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility -
  Comparison with the Gaviota Slide
• Harvey B. Newman, Mark H. Ellisman, and John A.
  Orcutt Data-Intensive E-Science Frontier
  Research, Communications of the ACM,Nov 2003.

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High visibility of SIOs OptIPuter projects at
AGU 2003