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As supercomputing moves towards exascale, scientists, engineers and medical researchers will look for efficient and cost effective ways to enable data analysis and visualization for the products of their computational efforts. The ‘exa’ metric prefix stands for quintillion, and the proposed exascale computers would approximately perform as many operations per second as 50 million laptops. Clearly, typical spatial and temporal data reduction techniques employed for post processing will not yield desirable results where reductions of 10e3, 10e6, or 10e9 may still produce petabytes, terabytes or gigabytes of data to transfer or store. Since transferring or storing data may no longer be viable for many simulation applications, data analysis and visualization must now be performed in situ. ParaView Catalyst is an open-source data analysis and visualization library, which aims to reduce IO by tightly coupling simulation, data analysis and visualization codes. This tutorial presented the architecture of ParaView Catalyst and the fundamentals of in situ data analysis and visualization. Attendees learned the basics of using ParaView Catalyst with hands-on exercises. The tutorial featured detailed guidance in implementing C++, Fortran and Python examples. Attendees installed a VirtualBox image from the ‘Download File’ link below for demonstrations and the exercises. Flyer
John Gustafson was Senior Fellow and Chief Product Architect at AMD (Graphics Processor Group, formerly ATI), until June 2013. He left to complete a book on a new approach to computer arithmetic. He has joined the Boards of SSRLabs, Etaphase Inc., and Clustered Systems Company Inc. He co-founded Ceranovo as CTO in November 2013 to pursue a proven technology for capacitors with very high energy and power density. John was a Director at Intel Labs from March 2009 to February 2012; he managed the group charged with driving off-roadmap, high-impact exploratory research. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Massively Parallel Technologies (MPT) from 2007 to May 2014, a company where he took the CEO role from May, 2008 to March 2009. MPT is a parallel computing company founded in 1999 that received multiple contracts from the DARPA HPCS program (the same one that funded Cray, Sun, and IBM); it is now applying the patented IP it generated during that phase to the creation of firmware/hardware product lines that allow HPC clusters to scale to thousands of processors on a single problem. Its communication technology is complementary to the arithmetic accelerators made by companies like ClearSpeed. John joined ClearSpeed in 2005 as CTO for HPC after leading HPC efforts at Sun. He has 42 years experience using and designing compute-intensive systems, including the first matrix algebra accelerator and the first commercial massively-parallel cluster while at Floating Point Systems. His pioneering work on a 1024-processor nCUBE at Sandia created a watershed in parallel computing, for which he received the inaugural Gordon Bell Award. He has received three R&D 100 Awards for innovative performance models, including the model commonly known as Gustafson’s Law or Scaled Speedup. He received his B.S. degree from Caltech and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Iowa State University, all in Applied Mathematics. Flyer
Hans Hagen is a full professor at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern and an adjunct professor at the University of California/Davis. He is also the scientific director of the institute on Intelligent Visualization and Simulation at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Dortmund, a B. S. and M. S. in mathematics and a B. S. in computer science from the University of Freiburg. Prior to his curent position, he was an associate professor at the TU Braunschweig and he had several visiting positions, especially in the USA. His research interests include all areas of scientific visualization, computer graphics and geometric modeling. He was editor in chief of the IEEE Transactions on visualization and computer graphics from 1999-2003 and is an associated editor of CAGD, Computing and Surveys on Mathematics in Industry. Prof. Hagen has published nearly 200 articles in scientific visualization, computer graphics, geometric modelling and geometry and is a member of ACM, GI, IEEE, and SIAM. Flyer
Christoph Garth is an assistant professor at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern in the Computational Topology Group of the Department of Computer Science. He has published nearly 50 articles since 2004 in visualization computational topology, visual analysis, flow visualization, fluid flow and high-performance visualization. Flyer
Guillaume Belanger works as an operation scientist on the Gamma-ray mission Integral in the Science Operations Department of the European Space Agency at ESAC, the European Space Astronomy Centre near Madrid in Spain. His research has been, and still is, firmly anchored to the deepest gravitational well in the Galaxy: Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). This four-million solar mass black hole whose location defines the nucleus of the Milky Way, is surrounded by a large array of unusal and intimately interacting astrophysical systems. He is interested in the investigation of the ways in which these systems evolve and interact with one another. Flyer
Ian Foster is Director of the Computation Institute, a joint institute of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory. He is also an Argonne Senior Scientist and Distinguished Fellow and the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science. Ian received a BSc (Hons I) degree from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and a PhD from Imperial College, United Kingdom, both in computer science. His research deals with distributed, parallel, and data-intensive computing technologies, and innovative applications of those technologies to scientific problems in such domains as climate change and biomedicine. Methods and software developed under his leadership underpin many large national and international cyberinfrastructures. Dr. Foster is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the British Computer Society. His awards include the Global Information Infrastructure (GII) Next Generation award, the British Computer Society’s Lovelace Medal, R&D Magazine’s Innovator of the Year, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He was a co-founder of Univa UD, Inc., a company established to deliver grid and cloud computing solutions. Flyer
Hank Childs is an Assistant Professor in the Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Oregon. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California at Davis in 2006. Hank’s research focuses on scientific visualization, high performance computing, and the intersection of the two. In July of 2012, Hank received the Department of Energy Early Career Award to research visualization with exascale computers (i.e., computers that can do 10^18 floating operations per second). Hank spent over a dozen years at Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, directing research in big data visualization. Outside of his research, Hank is best known as the architect of the VisIt project, a visualization application for very large data that is used around the world. Flyer
Robert M. (Mike) Kirby received the M.S. degree in applied mathematics, the M.S. degree in computer science, and the Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from Brown University, Providence, RI, in 1999, 2001, and 2002, respectively. He was promoted and received tenure at Utah in 2008. During his 2008-2009 sabbatical year, he taught a Michaelmas term course in High-Performance Scientific Computing at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, UK and for the academic year was the Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Aeronautics at Imperial College London, UK. He is currently a (Full) Professor of Computing and Associate Director with the School of Computing, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, where he is also an Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Bioengineering and Mathematics and a member of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute. His current research interests include scientific computing and visualization. Flyer
Kristi Potter is a visualization consultant and research programmer at the University of Oregon, working with the College of Arts and Science research support team. Her current research is focused on methods for improving visualization techniques by adding qualitative information concerning uncertainties present throughout the entire scientific pipeline. This work includes researching statistical measures of uncertainty, error, and confidence levels, and translating the semantic meaning of these measures into visual metaphors. In addition to research in visualization, she is working to bring visualization technologies to the university through classes, workshop, seminars and private consultation. She received her PhD in 2010 and MS in 2003 from Utah, and her BS in 2000 from the University of Oregon in computer science and fine art. She is serving on the Anita Borg Systers Pass-It-On Awards committee, and acted as chair from 2011 to 2013. Flyer
Bernice Rogowitz is a perceptual psychologist who draws research inspiration from visualization and imaging applications in medicine, finance, and physics. Dr. Rogowitz received her Ph.D. from Columbia University and was a postdoc at Harvard. As a scientist and research manager at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Dr. Rogowitz led research on visual representation, semantics, and analysis, producing both fundamental science and practical tools. She has recently founded a research and consulting company, called Visual Perspectives, which helps companies and research labs integrate principles of human perception and cognition into their programs. She is the founder of a multidisciplinary conference on Human Vision and Electronic Imaging, whose goal is to foster research at the intersection between perception, imaging technology and art. She is a Fellow of the SPIE and the IS&T, has published over 70 papers, and has issued patents in areas ranging from visualization to haptic interfaces to nanotechnology. Flyer