1. Towards a Comprehensive Environment for Data Analysis and Visualization Pamela Gillman, John Clyne Users Forum May 19, 2005

2. Overview Introduction Mission Mission Goals Current Services Integrating Scientific Work Flow Centralized Data Access Contact Information Questions?

3. Introduction Data Analysis Services Group Formed in November 2004 Pamela Gillman, John Clyne, Joey Mendoza

4. Mission Statement Enhancing scientific workflow by providing the research community with a highly advanced computing environment tailored toward the specialized needs of interactive data post-processing, analysis and visualization.

5. Mission Goals Providing a state of the art, unified computing environment comprised of powerful, closely coupled, interactive processing and visualization engines, high-performance storage, and specialized software applications Providing large-capacity, high-performance file systems shared between heterogeneous computers used for modeling, data analysis, visualization and access Evaluating, exploring and integrating applicable new technologies and methodologies to support the mission Producing visual content (animations and imagery) as a support service on behalf of scientific staff Performing basic research and algorithm development of relevant visualization and analysis methods

6. Current Services (1) Tempest –Interactive and batch data processing and analysis –Model validation –Applications IDL, MATLAB, NCL, NCO –Libraries IMSL, NAG –Development Environment MIPSPro C, C++, F77, F90 MPI, OMP GNU tools flint, WorkShop, WorkShopMPF

7. Advanced visualization facilities –3D and 4D data –Terascale data sets Remote visualization services Applications and libraries: –Vtk, Vis5d, IDL, NCL, OpenDX, and more Expert visualization staff Production visualization animation and imaging Customers: –Scientists –Support staff (e.g. VETS) Current Services (2)

8. Current Services (3) SCD Visualization Lab –Large format, high- resolution stereoscopic display –Group meeting room –Access Grid –Operated by SCD’s Visualization and Enabling Technologies Section (VETS) The SCD VisLab: A decision making environment for NCAR sciences Photo: Carlye Calvin -- UCAR Reservations and info : http://www.vets.ucar.edu/Vislab/index.shtml

9. Video Switch High Bandwidth Switch SGI Onyx3800 Irix/MIPS Visualization SMP SGI Origin2000 Irix/MIPS Analysis SMP Ciprico Shared Storage Array Interne t 64bit commodity visualization cluster Visual Computing and Display Resources SGI Prism Linux/Itanium2 Visualization SMP

10. Gfx pipe GigE FC cpu 0 cpu 9 High bandwidth shared storage Visual Supercomputer Local visualization Internet images X11 protocol Remote visualization Office Based Remote Visualization

11. Integrating Scientific Work Flow Problem Computation Analyze Results Visualize Results Publish Results

12. Centralized Data Access high-performance file system Analysis Servers VIS Servers CXFS Compute Servers GPFS MSS Servers cache data portal SCD portal SNFS

13. Contact Information SCD Customer Support –http://www.scd.ucar.edu/main.user.html –consult1@ucar.edu –303-497-1278 DASG –http://www.scd.ucar.edu/hss/dasg/ –dasg@ucar.edu

14. Questions?