Accomplishments

Applications • Earth Sciences

SIO OptIPuter Visualization Cluster

• 10 node IBM PC Cluster driving two 9.2 million pixels IBM T221 displays.– Connects to the OptIPuter Southern California network.

Applications • Earth Sciences

Volume Rendering at SIO

• SIO provided UIC and ISI with seismic volume dataset from the ARAD 3D experiment.– 800 x 800 x 1000 (32 bits) volume highlights the first 3D reflection image of a

crustal magma chamber located beneath the East Pacific Rise.

• GVU uses SIO VizCluster and renders to the monitor on the master node.• Vol-a-Tile uses SIO VizCluster and renders to IBM T221 displays.

– Vol-a-Tile now runs data servers on UCSD’s Storage Cluster and renders on the SIO’s Visualization Cluster over the SoCal OptIPuter network.

Figure 1: ARAD 3D volume visualized with GVU (ISI, USC)

Figure 2: GVU and Vol-a-tile on the SIO Visualization Cluster

Figure 3: ARAD 3D volume visualized with Vol-a-Tile (EVL, UIC)

Applications • Earth Sciences

High resolution imagery at SIO

• IKONOS Satellite Imagery (courtesy of SpaceImaging.com).• 0.3 m San Diego aerial photography (courtesy of Brian Davis, USGS).• Mars Rover Mission Panoramic Image (courtesy of JPL,NASA).

Figure 1: IKONOS satellite imagery combined with topography, bathymetry and seismic data in Incline Village, Lake Tahoe.

Figure 2: USGS ortho-imagery combined with LIDAR data of the coastal bluffs in San Diego.

Applications • Earth Sciences

Accessing Data from Remote Cluster (JSOE cluster to SIO VizCluster)

• Running multiple OptIPuter applications on SIO Cluster.– Retrieve scene file from storage cluster and display on IBM panels using Chromium.

– Juxtaview on SIO cluster displays high resolution satellite imagery.

Applications • Earth Sciences

SIO Visual Objects Storage & Distribution

• Scene files now stored on terabyte webserver on OptIPuter Storage Cluster for dissemination over OptIPuter network.

• Two-fold increase in number of website visitors that downloaded the scene files.

Applications • Earth Sciences

Transferring OptIPuter technologies to other NSF Projects

• RIDGE – Funded by RIDGE2K to develop

visual objects of data collected with variety of methods in multiple disciplines.

• GEON– Creating ‘scene’ files from

geological and GIS data for San Diego and the Rockies.

• ROADNet– Generating high resolution time lapse movies on the SIO cluster from near

real-time images captured by ROADNet sensors.

• NASA Goddard (non NSF)– Level3 link between SIO and NASA to allow for e-science between the

institutions.

ROADNet: Mt. Laguna Camera

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Future Goals

• Propose to build a 4 x 6 LCD tiled display driven by G5 Cluster– High resolution real time visualizations of USArray waveform data represented

as 3D glyphs and combined with near real time camera images.– Provide health monitoring of entire network.

USArray on the GeoWall 2

Applications • Earth Sciences

3D Tomography of Whole Earth Models

• Project in progress to visualize the mantle models for the whole Earth and in particular the North American continent.– Need to visualize the process of tomography while still inverting for the

model (Gabi Laske, IGPP)

Figure 1: REM model combined with seismicity. Yellow blobs are isosurface representations of surface wave propagation. White dots represent earthquakes of magnitude greater than 4.0.

Figure 2: Spherical representation of same data. Blue indicates positive values, where speed is high and mantle is cooler. Red indicates negative values, lower speeds and hotter mantle.