We would like to propose a new opensolaris project. Project: Visualization for HPC. Community support: HPC Developers Community (see attached email) Participants: Dean Stanton (leader) Steve Nash (leader) Linda Fellingham (contact person) Shefali Bhargava Allen Chen Darrell Commander Qinghuai Gao Paul Ramsey
Description: Visualization technologies are widely used within the HPC community to enable better understanding of the ever larger data sets that computer simulations and sensor networks are creating. Many tools for scalable visualization (defined as harnessing the capability of multiple graphics devices to deal with very large data sets) are available in the open source community, primarily deployed on Linux and Windows platforms. One goal of the Visualization project on opensolaris.org is to provide a complete integrated and tuned stack of software for scalable visualization on Solaris. The initial stack consists of Chromium, ParaView, OpenSceneGraph, and OpenMPI, plus pre-compiled binaries, installation and configuration scripts, and documentation on how to put a large-scale visualization system together. A second goal of the proposed visualization project is to provide software for enabling remote visualization and collaboration. The initial software stack will consist of VirtualGL, TurboVNC, and scripts that allow for the easy integration with Sun Grid Engine to manage graphics resources on a grid of visualization servers. Pre-compiled binaries, installation and configuration scripts, and documentation will also be provided. Related Projects: opensolaris.org: OpenFabrics User Verbs - may provide improved performance to scalable viz stack. other Open Source: OFED - component of scalable viz software stack (Linux) Chromium - component of scalable viz software stack OpenMPI - component of scalable viz software stack MVAPICH2 - component of scalable viz software stack (Linux) ParaView - component of scalable viz software stack OpenSceneGraph - component of scalable viz software stack Grid Engine - component of shared viz software stack VirtualGL - component of shared viz software stack TurboVNC- component of shared viz software stack Sun products: Sun Grid Engine - delivered by Grid Engine team ClusterTools - delivered by Solaris Platform Software RPE team Shared Visualization - delivered by Advanced Visualization team through graphics consolidation Scalable Visualization solutions - delivered by Advanced Visualization team through graphics consolidation Other information: One of the problems facing HPC customers who want to use Solaris is the lack of applications available to them. Providing easy access to Solaris binaries of popular open source visualization applications will be another benefit of this project. -- ------------------------------------------------ Linda Fellingham x49322 Ph:(650)472-9561 Advanced Visualization Group, Sun Microsystems ------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Brad Lewis <brad.le...@sun.com> Subject: Re: Starting an opensolaris Visualization project Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:18:07 -0600 Size: 4371 URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/attachments/20070820/b2d57a30/attachment.nws>
