Colloquium Details
15 Years of Large-Scale Scientific Visualization
| Author: | Ken Moreland Sandia National Laboratories |
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| Date: | January 23, 2014 |
| Time: | 12:00 |
| Location: | 220 Deschutes |
| Host: | Hank Childs |
Abstract
The United States Department of Energy invests heavily in large computational resources and the science-based applications to drive them. Physical simulations run at these leadership-class facilities generate massive amounts of results data, which must be analyzed to gain understanding of the underlying phenomena. As the computation of our simulations grow, so too must our ability to perform data analysis and visualization.
This talk takes a 15 year trip from the start of using parallel computing to perform large-scale scientific visualization in the late 1990's and early 2000's to the state of the art in visualization software today. At the end we peer into the future to see the next generation of visualization challenges fueled by an ever changing computational landscape and consistent growth in the size and scope of scientific analysis.
Biography
Kenneth Moreland received the BS degrees in computer science and in electrical engineering from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1997. He received the MS and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of New Mexico in 2000, and 2004, respectively, and currently resides at Sandia National Laboratories. Dr. Moreland specializes in large-scale visualization and graphics and has played an active role in the development of ParaView, a general-purpose scientific visualization system capable of scalable parallel data processing. His current interests the design and development of visualization algorithms and systems to run on multi-core, many-core and future-generation computer hardware.