Member details - advanced visualization collaboration

Budapest University of Technology and Economics

The graphics group at the Technical University of Budapest was established 20 years ago. In early times it focused on graphics hardware and library development, on process visualization, and on efficient ray-tracing algorithms. Current research interests include Monte-Carlo global illumination algorithms; exploitation of the graphics hardware for real-time photorealistic rendering; and volume visualization.

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California Institute of Technology Center for Advanced Computing, CACR

The mission of the Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR) is to ensure the California Institute of Technology is at the frontier of computational science and engineering. CACR organizes and plays key roles in multidisciplinary collaborations to extend the frontiers of science and engineering by:

• following an applications-driven approach to research
• providing an environment that cultivates multidisciplinary collaborations
• harnessing new technologies to create innovative computing environments
• conducting multidisciplinary research using these computing environments

CACR's current primary areas of research are:

• software architectures for scientific computing applications
• analysis of large scale, heterogeneous, distributed scientific data collections
• innovative architectural and programming paradigms for future computing systems

Collaborations typically involve a scientific or engineering group at the California Institute of Technology or Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, together with participation by leading related research groups at other institutions.

CACR is one of the four initial participants in the TeraGrid, the NSF-sponsored multi-year effort to build and deploy the world's largest, most comprehensive, distributed infrastructure for open scientific research. CACR's role in the TeraGrid is the development of an exemplary center for the exploratory analysis of large scale data collections. In this context, CACR is collaborating with national and international scientific research communities, including astronomy, high energy physics, neutron physics, and geosciences.

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CEA/DAM Ile de France

The CEA/DAM Ile de France Center is located in Bruyères le Châtel, France, about 20 miles from Paris. This Research Center for the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA/DAM) is specially devoted to simulation and environmental surveillance. To conduct its numerical simulations, the Research Center owns an important HPC complex, including a 5 TeraFlops cluster of SMP systems (640 AlphaServer ES45 nodes), TERA, and a 2 TeraFlops cluster (200 AlphaServer ES45 nodes), dedicated to collaborations with academic research and with industry (CCRT).

The Center has based the Ter@tec project around this HPC complex, the goals of which are:

• to facilitate the use of HPC for industrial companies, through collaborations and sharing the complex capacity,
• to develop academic research and collaborations especially in HPC technologies, algorithms, and simulation applications,
• to interact with HPC vendors, both in specification and tuning of very high-performance HPC platforms, to facilitate the setting up of vendors of competent platforms close to CEA/DAM Ile de France

The CEA Ter@tec project now includes:

• 4 major user partner companies, who own more than 25% of the CCRT.
• 2 joint-venture laboratories in partnership with two major universities, one dedicated to HPC technologies, the other dedicated to algorithms and applications.
• A partnership between HP and CEA under the umbrella of the HP-CEA agreement (March 6, 2002), including more than 5 important items for research and development in HPC.

Ford Audio-Video Systems

Ford Audio-Video is a systems integration contractor for the design and integration of video display, audio support and teleconferencing (both audio and video). We facilitate collaboration and real time interaction using video, audio and data to improve management and control of business and emergency operations.

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High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, HLRS

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Manchester Computing, University of Manchester

Europe's Premier Academic Computing Service, Manchester Computing provides a range of computing services to staff and students at the University of Manchester as well as to members of other academic institutions throughout the UK. From networking and supporting the campus computers to providing supercomputing facilities and access to major datasets and online bibliographic data, Manchester Computing is at the forefront of technology supporting teaching and research in all disciplines.

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National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, NCMIR

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Sharcnet

SHARCNET is an HPC collaboration of 11 institutions in southwestern Ontario funded by the province of Ontario and the Canada Foundation for Innovation. The vision of SHARCNET is to establish a world-leading, multi-university, interdisciplinary institute with an active academic-industry partnership, enabling forefront computational research in critical areas of science, engineering, and business.

The McMaster University Research and High-Performance Computing Support is a department under the Office of the Vice-President, Research, formed to provide system administration support for McMaster research computing clusters and to facilitate and promote the use of HPC and related technologies on campus.

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PDC (Paralleldatorcentrum) of the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

KTH, established in 1827, is one of Europe's top schools for science and engineering education and research, graduating one-third of Sweden's undergraduate and graduate engineers in the full range of engineering disciplines. Enrollment is about 17,500 students, of which about 1,400 are pursuing PhD studies.

PDC is the lead center for high-performance computing and visualization for the Swedish academic community. PDC is collaborating with five other HPC centers in Sweden within the SweGrid project, to establish a Swedish Grid infrastructure, a major initiative within SNIC, the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing. PDC is also a founding member of the Nordic Grid Consortium (together with CSC, Helsinki and Parallab, Bergen), and the European Grid Support Center (together with the UK e-Science program and CERN).

PDC, established in 1989, has extensive experience in providing secure access and dependable service and training for high-end state-of-the art environments for leading-edge computational research in science and engineering. To accomplish this task PDC has gained considerable experience in the development of tools and systems for administering and managing novel high performance computing environments for production, including massively parallel computers (Thinking Machines), early clusters (Digital and IBM), parallel/vector systems (Fujitsu), distributed shared memory systems (SGI), and Intel- and AMD-based clusters.

PDC in collaboration with the Department of Numerical Analysis and Computer Science (NADA) has developed an Open Source version of Kerberos V (Heimdal) delivered with Debian and Free BSD, and Open Source clients for AFS (ARLA). Among developed tools are schedulers/load levelers, file systems for distributed environments, and a software system for administering a cluster of currently 200 nodes, developed and deployed in cooperation with the Stockholm Bioinformatics Center.

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SUNY Stony Brook Center for Visual Computing

The Center for Visual Computing was established to advance visual computing studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, to promote research and education in Visual Computing at the University, to attract major federal and state funding, to motivate additional industries to collaborate with us, and to foster interdisciplinary interaction within the Stony Brook community and with other organizations.

Visual computing research activities include visualization, computer graphics, image processing, medical imaging, virtual reality, user interfaces, computer-supported collaborative work, computer-aided design, multimedia, and computational geometry, as well as numerous applications of these areas.

CVC is directed by Leading Professor Arie Kaufman; and there are over 100 research scientists, visiting scholars, post-doctoral fellows, and PhD students engaged in Visual Computing. CVC incorporates eight state-of-the-art laboratories, including the Visualization Laboratory and the MULTI lab. All the departments within the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, as well as many departments within the School of Medicine and the College of Arts and Sciences are active in Visual Computing research or its applications.

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Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS)

CSCS is the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, providing, developing and promoting technical and scientific services for the Swiss research community on the fields of high-performance and high-throughput computing.

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Texas Learning and Computation Center

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University of Utah Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC)

The Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC) provides large-scale computer and networking resources (hardware, software and expertise) to facilitate advances in multiple academic disciplines requiring advanced computing and network capabilities beyond those existing in individual Colleges and Departments.

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University of Zurich, Visualization and Multimedia Lab

The Visualization and Multimedia Lab researches real-time 3D computer graphics, interactive large-scale scientific visualization, and multimedia technology.

Research topics include, but are not limited to:

• multiresolution modeling
• point-based graphics
• image-based rendering
• geometry compression
• mesh simplification
• terrain visualization
• volume rendering and streaming 3D graphics

In the field of advanced visualization, we are developing Equalizer, an open source programming interface and resource management system for the development and deployment of scalable, multipipe applications. Equalizer consists of a programming framework and a system-wide resource server. In addition, it will incorporate a transparent OpenGL layer as well as remote rendering capabilities.

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Visual Collaboration Technologies Inc.

Visual Collaboration Technologies is Texas-based company with offices in Troy, Michigan. Our company focuses on developing engineering visualization software called vCollab. vCollab is a universal CAx viewer that can read CAD, FEA, CFD and CAM 3D data and create a VCB Visual file that is compressed up to 91%. In conjunction with this, it offers an extrely high end graphics service on laptops and desktops. A VCB Visual file is flexible enough to accommodate static geometries from CAD as well as transient simulations from FEA, CFD and CAM domains. In addition to its flexibility, vCollab is powerful enough to handle 'industrial-size' large data sets ( >>1 GB).

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