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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 PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Welcome to SCV
Erik Brisson
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Welcome to SCV http://scv.bu.edu
Erik BrissonAssociate Director
Scientific Computing and Visualization GroupBoston University
Welcome to SCV
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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
• 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
• 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