Lennart Johnsson Professor CSC Director, PDC Visualization at KTH Lennart Johnsson Professor CSC Director, PDC

Visualization at KTH Courses Presentation facility Integrated into applications Visualization research Augmented reality – haptics Collaboration

Course setup 15 - 20 graphics workstations, half replaced every year with state-of-the-art graphics cards Small graphics cluster, 4 – 8 nodes Small display wall, 3x4 4 Mpixel LCD display Software: Support: 0.25 – 0.5 FTE

Course setup Hardware cost: ~1 Mkr (~0.5Mkr/yr) Software: 0.5 – 1 Mkr (~0.2Mkr/yr) Staff: 0.2 – 0.4 Mkr/yr Space: 0.15 Mkr/yr Total: ~1.2Mkr/yr

Presentation Facility 50 seat auditorium Two 8 Mpixel projectors, stereo Four graphics workstations each with dual-core dual socket Opterons with 1GHz HT bus 4+ GB of memory Dual nVidia Quadro FX 4500 512MB cards Audio

Presentation Facility 50 seat auditorium Hardware cost: ~3Mkr Software: 1 – 2 Mkr Support: 0.25 – 0.5 FTE Space: 0.4 Mkr/yr Total: ~2.5Mkr/yr Plus potentially shared rendering and simulation resources for large scale applications

Visualization integrated into applications Distributed Visualization A small display facility for each application group 2x3 or 3x4 display wall 1 or 2 graphics workstations Shared/central simulation, rendering and data management facility Min 20 – 30 node cluster, hundreds of nodes or more for rendering of HD movies Software: High-Speed networking: 10 GigE

Visualization integrated into applications Distributed Visualization Local setup cost: 150 – 250kkr Shared setup: 750kkr – 30,000kkr Software: Infrastructure/space: 15%-20%/yr for shared setup Support: 0.1FTE/local setup 1+ FTE central 10 groups: 300+kkr/yr/group + Softw.

Visualization Research Large scale ….. 100+ Mpixels Volume rendering of large data sets Find data of interest/navigate/mine/ … large data sets ………..

High-Resolution Visualization 2003 -2004

A Vision for the Future: Towards Gigapixel Displays SuperHD StreamingVideo Gigapixel Wall Paper Augmented Reality 1 GigaPixel x 3 Bytes/pixel x 8 bits/byte x 30 frames/sec ~ 1 Terabit/sec! Source: Jason Leigh, EVL, UIC

New USGS Aerial Imagery At 1-Foot Resolution High Resolution Aerial Photography Generates Images With 10,000 Times More Data than Landsat7 Landsat7 Imagery 100 Foot Resolution Draped on elevation data USGS Shane DeGross, Telesis New USGS Aerial Imagery At 1-Foot Resolution ~10x10 square miles of 350 US Cities 2.5 Billion Pixel Images Per City! Courtesy: Larry Smarr

OptIPortal– Termination Device for the OptIPuter Global Backplane Source: Phil Papadopoulos SDSC, Calit2

OptIPortal– Termination Device for the OptIPuter Global Backplane 20 Dual CPU Nodes, 20 24” Monitors, ~$50,000 1/4 Teraflop, 5 Terabyte Storage, 45 Mega Pixels--Nice PC! Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment ( SAGE) Jason Leigh, EVL-UIC Source: Phil Papadopoulos SDSC, Calit2

Visualization Research Facility needs Display setup: 1 – 5 Mkr Cluster setup: 1 – 5 Mkr Network setup: 0.2 Mkr Software: Space: 0.5 Mkr Support: 1 FTE Total: 3 – 4Mkr/yr Projects: Virtual Fires GEMSViz Jaco3 Uni-Verse

A point of reference at KTH 1996 – 2000: PDC hardware investment – 14.7 Mkr 1998 – 2001: Staff, software, maintenance etc, 4 Mkr Lokaler ~0.6 Mkr/yr Total: ~4.5 Mkr/yr

Augmented reality – Haptic Lab Boeing UNC – Henry Fuchs Harvard Medical School

Collaboration - Communication Access Grid and more Argonne University of Salford 3D Telepresence and Medical Consultation University of Quensland

Typical Views of Access Grid ETF Management Meeting Seminar Typical Views of Access Grid Depending on your measure of success we are one of the best Universities in the UK. In most tables we appear around 5th. SC Global Workshop Seminar Performance Art

Calit2 Global Broadband “The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed” William Gibson, Author of Neuromancer Mobile Broadband 0.05 to 0.5 Mbps Home Broadband 1-5 Mbps Calit2 Global Broadband 1,000-10,000 Mbps

Use of OptIPortal to Interactively View Microbial Genome 15,000 x 15,000 Pixels Acidobacteria bacterium Ellin345 (NCBI) Soil Bacterium 5.6 Mb Source: Raj Singh, UCSD

Use of OptIPortal to Interactively View Microbial Genome 15,000 x 15,000 Pixels Acidobacteria bacterium Ellin345 (NCBI) Soil Bacterium 5.6 Mb Source: Raj Singh, UCSD

Use of OptIPortal to Interactively View Microbial Genome 15,000 x 15,000 Pixels Acidobacteria bacterium Ellin345 (NCBI) Soil Bacterium 5.6 Mb Source: Raj Singh, UCSD

Video Games

Feature Films