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

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

3. Course setup
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

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

5. 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 MB cards
Audio

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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.

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

10. High-Resolution Visualization

11. 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

12. 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

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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

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

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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. Video Games

25. Feature Films