Jun 24th, 2010
by aberthier.
In the context of the last Ter@tec forum (June 2010), the Collaviz project organized a workshop about the New Paradigms of Scientific Visualization.
Some of the most qualified and respected speakers of the field accepted to join just in this occasion. Their presence helped Collaviz make a real success of this workshop. Indeed about a hundred people came to assist to the different presentations and the feedback was good.
Many thanks to them again on behalf of all of the Collaviz partners.
An article about this workshop was even published on ClusterHPC.com, which is the only HPC & Visualization specific information website in French.
This workshop has covered many different areas of the Scientific Visualization domain:
- Standards and Norms of Scientific Visualization
o Web3D Consortium presentation by Johannes BERH (Fraunhofer IDG):
This consortium aims at creating an Open Source ISO standard for interactive 3D exchanges.
o XML3D & Ray tracing by Philipp SLUSALLEK and Kristian SONS (DFKI):
No solution exists yet for 3D visualization through the WWW. Developing such tool is the goal of their work.
o Editor’s point of view by William J. SCHROEDER (Kitware):
The 66 employees of Kitware are specialized in the Open Source Scientific Visualization field. They are known for their experience of co-processing, streaming, online visualization or collaboration.
- High Performance Visualization
o Collaborative Visualization for National Research by Guillaume COLIN DE VERDIERE (CEA):
Presentation of VisuPortal (Oxalya), a solution which enables users to book computing resources and exploit interactive graphic means to visualize their results in 3D, remotely, collaboratively and safely.
o High Performance Visualization material by Eric BRAUX (Barco):
Barco helps Research centers to address their Visualization challenges (Images wall, Immersive rooms, etc.)
- Remote Scientific Visualization
o Covise introduction by Andreas WIERSE (VISENSO):
Covise is a product distributed by VISENSO. It is the outcome of several R&D projects (presented during the workshop).
o Users’ needs by Jacques VAIRON and Fabrice DUPROS (BRGM):
The BRGM is a public organization which has important Scientific Visualization needs. It is important to understand users’ needs.
o Functional answer from the Collaviz project by Ian GRIMSTEAD (University of Cardiff) and Laurent ANNE (Distene):
The Collaviz project is developing an Open Source platform for remote collaborative visualization. Some of the developments were shown.
- Scientific Visualization as a Decision-making tool
o CSDL: an Industrial point of view by Michel RAVACHOL (Dassault Aviation)
o CSDL: Researchers ongoing works by Florian DE VUYST, Rim DJEDIDI and Anastasia BEZERIANOS (ECP Paris):
The CSDL project is coordinated by Dassault Aviation. It aims at showing the interest of Scientific Visualization for Decision-making editors and users. They need it to interpret and interact better their data with their various collaborators.
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May 12th, 2010
by aberthier.
“The HPC event of 2010 in France”
Ter@tec, the High Performance Simulation and Computing for Competitiveness, Innovation and Deployment forum, will take place on the forthcoming 15th and 16th of June at Ecole Polytechnique, France.
Every year, this forum gathers international experts of the numerical design and simulation fields. It welcomed over 600 people in 2009, showing how dynamic is the HPC sector.
This forum is a major European event, which occurs at a particular moment where HPC has never been so strategic for the economic and industrial development of organizations and states.
This edition will be focusing on HPC usages in increasingly different domains. Plenary sessions will be held by Industry seniors and ICT officials. Other Exhibitions and Workshops will be focusing on specific topics.
Collaviz is organizing on Wednesday the 16th of June one the six workshops proposed during the Forum. This Workshop concerning the “New Paradigms of Scientific Visualization” will gather the Collaviz partners, as well as other important contributors of the Visualization field.
Under the recent evolutions of High Performance Computing (manipulating increasingly important data volumes, collaborating with distant entities, etc.), new paradigms have indeed risen.
Thus, we are pleased to invite you to our Workshop if you would like to learn more about Visualization norms and standards, High Performance Remote Visualization, Collaborative Visualization or Visualization a Decision-making tool.
Find out more information about the Forum and the complete two days program here: http://www.teratec.eu/gb/forum/index.html
The Collaviz Project.
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The last Collaviz event was a success.We would like to thank all the partners who came at the INRIA Paris to work and exchange point of views and ideas about the future of the project. As mentionned in the agenda we ran a demonstration of the first stable prototype. Every thing went fine and the project is ready for industrialization.
To have an idea on how it was, please have a look at the pictures.
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The ANR’s “Colloque STIC ” was held at “La Cité des Sciences” of Paris on 5th, 6th and 7th of January. Collaviz Project, as a leading ANR Project, participated at this event in order to present its steps through a demonstration, a scientific poster and a public presentation.
more info about the ANR Colloque STIC 2010
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VisWeek is the first forum for visualisation advances for academia, government, and industry. This year, more than 800 people went to Atlantic City to present and share new ideas in the fields of scientific and information visualisation.
Kitware, the company that develops and maintain the official version of both the VTK library and the ParaView software, invited the Collaviz project at its BOF. Stephane Ploix (EDF R&D) presented the project, hightligthing the aim to create an end-user oriented product, that meets industry standards. Both the developer and the demonstrator communities where presented, and the focus on the industry issues, like security, use of existing infrastructures or data management was clearly recieved as an original and necessary approach.
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Thursdays 7th of October 2009, the first Collaviz TechDay has been done at the INRIA, Rocquencourt.
The objective of this TechDay was to present in details the proposed architectural choices and software developments already done regarding the Collaviz middleware. These results correspond to the work performed in the frames of WP1 and WP6.
One of the most important issues of the TechDay was the transfer of the expertise to the other project partners, through a technical training course focusing on the software development aspects.
The selected key technologies, like Java, Tomcat, Seam/Richfaces, Neodatis, Metro, Guice, and JNI, on the one hand, and the developed framework itself, on the other hand, have been presented and discussed. A large part of the training course was based on a practical work, where the attendees performed the complete exposition as service of an example of tailored software module. This pratical work has validated the whole approach and the possibility for non-expert to expose as services software components at a reasonable cost.
Last the production chain, including a consistent set of continuous integration and quality control tools, like Maven, Hudson and Sonar, has been presented.
About ten attendees were present to this TechDay, representation most of the technical WPs.
The TechDay has been hosted by Scilab Digiteo in charge of the WP2 of Collaviz. In the future, TechDays will be opened to the public.
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The 36th international conference and exhibition on computer graphics and interactive techniques also known as SIGGRAPH 2009 was held this year in New Orleans, Louisiana from 3rd to 7th August 2009. This event was definitely the place to be for scientific visualization.
Thanks to Web3D Consortium, Collaviz had the opportunity to be introduced to different computer graphics communities through an Alexandre Frouart (EDF R&D) presentation about our project. He also presented the present use and the future use of the X3D standard within Collaviz.
The presentation can be downloaded here.
A few words about X3D:
X3D, the only XML-based 3D file format and run-time architecture for Web authors, remains the most widely used ISO open standard for implementation of high-integrity, high-capability 3D systems. With its rich set of componentized features, X3D is used in more and more 3D markets and hardware platforms. X3D has a large innovative community of content and applications developers, and it ensures interoperability and ownership of your 3D content.
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The demonstrators used to build the first inputs of Collaviz have been presented yesterday to Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, Minister of State to the Prime Minister, with responsibility for Forward Planning, Assessment of Public Policies and Development of the Digital Economy, in the frame of the System@tic cluster’s convention.
Held at the Ecole Centrale de Paris in Châtenay-Malabry, the 4th internal convention of the System@tic-Paris-Region cluster counted about 850 registered particpants. Within more than 150 R&D project represented, 14 presented their results on the demo space: Collaviz presented the results of its work on collaborative visualization of the previous collaboration between the OSCOS and Part@ge projects.
Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet has inaugurate the demonstration floor, including the Collaviz demo, in the morning.
The Collaviz demo was introduced by Gerard Poirier (Dassault Aviation), president of the OCDS System@tic thematic group and was completed by Dominique Vernay (Thales) , president of the System@tic Cluster.
(From left to right: Gérard Poirier, Alban Schmutz, Thierry Duval, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, Dominique Vernay. Picture credits: System@tic Paris-Region Cluster)
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