KISTI Supercomputing Center CAS Workshop 2003 (Sep. 7-11, 2003) The Development of Collaborative Virtual Environment S/W for Meteorology Minsu Joh Head of Supercomputing Application Technologies Department

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology This presentation will show you the activities of constructing a leading-edge research environment in virtual space for computational scientists.

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology Project Overview what VR Grid Project is Plans & Achievements during the 1 st & 2 nd year of the VR Grid Project Future Plans for the remaining year of the VR Grid Project Contents Introduction who KISTI Supercomputing Center is

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology Introduction

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information a Government supported Research Institute to serve Korea Scientists and Engineers with Scientific/Industrial Data Bases, Research Networks & Supercomputing Infra.  Key statistics  Organization: 3 divisions, 2 centers, 3 branch offices  Personnel: about 300 regular staffs, 100 part timers, 150 related workers  Annual revenue: more than USD60M, mostly funded by the central government

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology  provides powerful HPC & Networking Resources  leads cutting-edge researches in Computational Science  leads national Grid activities  Key statistics  Organization: 6 departments  Personnel: about 60 regular staffs, 30 part timers, 20 related workers  Annual revenue: more than USD32M, mostly funded by the central government Supercomputing Center

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology Vision e-Science National Center for Application Sciences Grid Technologies National Center for Integrative High end Resources Networking National Center for High Performance Research Network Supercomputing National Center for Supercomputing Resources & Technologies

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology  Started the 1 st supercomputer service with Cray 2S in 1988  Started the 2 nd supercomputer service with Cray C90 in 1993  Started a parallel computing service with Cray T3E in 1997  Started the 3 rd supercomputer service with NEC SX-5/6, IBM p690/p690+ in 2001 Supercomputer Service Cray-2S 1 st SC System until 1993 Cray C90 2 nd SC System until 2001 Cray T3E until 2002 NEC SX-5 IBM p690 4node 2002 PC Cluster 128node 2003 IBM p node NEC SX-6 TeraCluster 256node+ HP GS320 HPC160/320

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology Computing Resources System NameNEC SX-5/SX-6IBM p690/p690+ Introduction / / Peak Perf.80/160Gflops665.6/3,699.2Gflops Memory128/128GB672/3,712GB CPU#8/16128/544 The 3rd Supercomputing Systems in Korea ( ~ ) 240Gflops4,365Gflops

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology I-Desk COVISE Ensight AVS MPE Hardware Software Visualization Resources SeeMore (CAVE-like System)

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology Project Overview

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology  National Program( ) planned by MIC  Total Budget: approximately USD 33M  KISTI as the leading organization Grid NOC Middleware Development Grid Applications Network Operation & Infra Development Research Application & Research Grid Forum Korea Secretariat National Grid Project

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology High Speed Network Infrastructure Internet Infrastructure(NGI) Grid Middleware Computational, Data & Access Grid (VR Grid) Supercomputers, Storages & Instruments Grid Applications Enhancing Korea’s Competitiveness in Science & Technology Goal of the National Grid Project

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology participation MOA Fund Global Grid Forum endorsement support GFK NTG collaboration ApGrid collaboration PRAGMA NPACI iHPC(Singapore) TACC(Japan) NCHC(Taiwan) APAC(Australia) EU International Grid Activities

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology VR Grid Project  Subproject of National Grid Project  Total Budget: approximately USD 1M Construct Tele-immersive Visualizaton System over Networks Fish-tank style Workbench style CAVE style Projection Based VR Monitor Based VR

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology Goal of the VR Grid Project Establish a Virtual Collaboratory Develop 3D Data Managing System making/displaying/exploring/analyzing Data, simultaneously Collaborative Virtual Environment

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology Collaborative Virtual Environment 3D SV S/W VR S/WCVE S/W Vis5D CAVE5DCAVE6D CAVELib CAVERNSoft computer-based, distributed, virtual space in which people can interact with others, or with virtual objects

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology Virtual Collaboratory Computational GridVR Grid Display/Explore Data Make Data Data Grid Access Grid Store/Retrieve Data Storages DB servers etc. computers Compute & Visualize Retrieve & Visualize Transfer & Discuss Analyze Data virtual research environment where scientists can access computational resources, share data, and interact with collaborators, regardless of geographical location

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology  Construct Tele-Immersive Visualization Environment for Collaborative Work  Develop Application S/Ws for Collaborative Virtual Environment  Build Collaborative Environment between VR Grid and (Access/Computational/Data) Grids Project Objectives

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology Cooperative Institutes VR Grid Application S/Ws VR Grid Middleware VR Grid Testbed Cooperation 3D Model development Technology development Access Compu. Data Grids Process Summary Interface development

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology Plans & Achievements

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology Plans in 2002  Construct VR Grid Testbeds  Develop Application S/W for Meteorology  Validate VR Grid through Testbeds

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology Achievements in 2002  Formed Testbed Partnerships KISTI-UIC (overseas), KISTI-KMA(domestic)  Developed Application S/W for Meteorological data MeteoView  Validated VR Grid through Testbeds

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology Testbed Infrastructure in 2002 APIITestbed KREONet2 (STAR TAP) Australia Seoul KMA USA EVL/UIC 시카고 KORNET STAR TAP Daejeon KISTI  cave style to cave style  cave style to workbench style  high vs low latency network

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology 45Mbps KISTIUIC CAVE6D+ STAR TAP Overseas VR Grid Testbed (1/2)

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology Domestic VR Grid Testbed (2/2) 315Mbps KISTIKMA MeteoView, CAVE6D+ KREONET

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology CAVE6D vs CAVE6D+ -Modifier: KISTI -CAVERNsoft G2/Quanta -High latency -Developer: EVL/UIC -CAVERNsoft G1 -Low latency CAVE6D+CAVE6D

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology Graphic Server Virtual Reality System CVE Data storage G/S VR WAN  each site has its own graphic server  exchange the position data, state variable name  available on high latency network Virtual Collaboratory in 2002

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology MeteoView (1/4)  Visualization S/W for Meteorological data on CAVE  using CAVELib and Quanta  audio conferencing is available  contour/shading/isosurface/wind vector are available

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology 3D Contour/Shading CONTOURCONTOUR SHADINGSHADING XY Contour YZ Contour XZ Contour XY Shading YZ Shading XZ Shading MeteoView (2/4)

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology 3D Iso-Surface Iso-surface (Temp=220K)Iso-surface (Temp=220K) with Cross-sections MeteoView (3/4)

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology Wind Vector at 500hPaWind Vector at 500hPa with Iso-surface (u wind = 5m/s) 3D Wind Vector MeteoView (4/4)

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology Plans in 2003  Optimize VR Grid through active testbeds collaboration  Enhance Application S/W, MeteoView with volume rendering and computational steering capability  Develop Interface Technology between VR Grid and Access Grid

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology Achievements in 2003  Formed Testbeds 3 institutes(overseas), 4 institutes(domestic)  Enhanced the Performance of MeteoView Volume Rendering  Designed interface CAVE system & Access Grid system SeeMore(KISTI)-AGS(KJIST)

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology  3 overseas institutes - IHPC, Univ. of Queensland, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago  4 domestic institutes - Iwha Woman’s Univ., ICU, KJIST, POSTECH Partnerships

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology Implemented Volume Visualization  Near Real-time Volume Visualization using 3D Texture Mapping Hardware in the Onyx3400 IR3 MeteoView+ (1/2)

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology  Proxy geometries (simple polygon slices) are rendered  3D Texture (volume dataset) is applied in the proxy geometries  Appropriate color table and alpha blending are applied Realize the Near Real-time Volume Visualization using 3D Texture Mapping Hardware MeteoView+ (2/2)

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology Client B Address table VR Grid (Client A) Needed at least 3 different Images at one time KJIST NMR Panoramic display Needed at most 3 different Images at one time e-VR Grid (Client B) UIC EVL e-AG (Client C) register as a receiver Needed at most 2 different Images at one time register as a receiver register as a sender Send images KISTI CAVE Receive images camera 1 camera 2camera 3 VR Grid Server Client A receiver address Number of needed display is 3 Client C sender address Number of needed display is 2 This time it is a sender!  Designing interface to share the immersive media among asymmetric systems such as CAVE & VR Grid Interface btw CAVE & e-AG

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology Future Plans

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology Remaining Plans in 2003  Validate VR Grid over active Testbeds 3 institutes(overseas), 4 institutes(domestic)  Enhance the Performance of MeteoView Computational Steering  Developed interface CAVE systme & Access Grid System SeeMore(KISTI)-AGS(KJIST)

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology Graphic Server -Data Visualization -CVE S/W Implementation -Comp./VR/Data Grids connection Computing Server -Numerical Simulation -Numerical Data Generation -Data Transfer (G/S) Display System -Data Display -Request Data Visualization (G/S) -Request Numerical Simulation (C/S) VR-Based User Interface, VRUI Implement Computational Steering (1/3) data transfer display visualize compute

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology Visualization Collaboration Audio. conf. Steering Meteoview Supercomputers Climate Model model output triggering command - Change parameter - Execute model generate output TCP Steering Manager Network Implement Computational Steering (2/3)

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology IBM p690/p690+ NEC SX-5/6 SGI Onyx3400 Trimension ReaCTor Graphic Server Computing System Display System PC Cluster Implement Computational Steering (3/3)

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology VR Data storage CVE G/S Tele-Vis. Supercomputer Computational Steering VR Computational Steering Establish Virtual Collaboratory  one tele-immersive graphic server  send visualized image  computational steering

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology Build Collaborative Environment KJIST KISTI EVL/UIC between VR Grid and Access Grid <Domestic/overseas testbed for collaborative environment between VR Grid and Access Grid>

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology Summary

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology Goal of the VR Grid Project Establish a Virtual Collaboratory 3D Massive Data Making / Displaying / Exploring / Analyzing Simultaneously Collaborative Virtual Environment

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology Graphic Server Virtual Reality System CVE Virtual Collaboratory in 2002 Data storage G/S VR WAN

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology VR Data storage CVE G/S Virtual Collaboratory in near future Tele-Vis. Supercomputer Computational Steering VR Computational Steering

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology Virtual Collaboratory in 2006 Computational GridVR Grid Display/Explore Data Make Data Data Grid Access Grid Store/Retrieve Data Storages DB servers etc. computers Compute & Visualize Retrieve & Visualize Transfer & Discuss Analyze Data

KISTI Supercomputing Center Extending the Horizon of Science and Technology The VR Grid Project will provide Scientists with a leading-edge research environment in virtual space.

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