Supercomputing '09: TACC Demonstrates Largest Presence to Date

Visit TACC Booth #1545!

The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) will have its largest presence to date at Supercomputing ‘09 (SC09), the international conference for high-performance computing, networking, storage and analysis, which runs from November 16-20 in Portland, Oregon. Emphasis on Scientific Visualization

"This is an exciting year for scientific visualization at SC09," said Kelly Gaither, director of data & information analysis at TACC. "We're in the process of constructing and deploying Longhorn, the largest hardware accelerated visualization cluster for use in the national open science community. The National Science Foundation has done a tremendous job of recognizing the importance of visualization resources to the advancement of science and engineering. We're excited to deploy the first NSF XD Visualization resource."

The visualization resources and capabilities that will be on display in TACC's Booth are:

• Colt: A tiled display powered by a Dell graphics cluster that comprises multiple LCD panels and enables viewing of very large data sets at high resolution. Colt demonstrates the procedures and software used by TACC for the highest resolution single-tiled display in the world, Stallion, housed in its visualization laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin. These procedures are detailed in a white paper that will be distributed in the TACC booth.
• Longhorn: Soon to be the largest, hardware-accelerated visualization cluster in the world, capable of producing visualizations of data at unprecedented scale. TACC will showcase a subset of Longhorn with live demonstrations of remote and interactive large-scale visualizations to be displayed on Colt.

TACC staff will be available to discuss visualization, remote collaboration, high-speed data transfer, and to provide hands-on guidance

Join us at the talks listed below and visit the TACC Booth #1545 on the exhibition floor to learn more about TACC's portfolio of advanced computing and visualization resources, services and programs.