Services
We maintain a Visualization Lab (VisLab) as well as a Virtual Environments Lab
(VELab) and support clients in their usage. A variety of
software tools are
offered on the machine platforms of the labs covering scientific
visualization, image aquisition and manipulation, basic graphics,
3D scene modelling, software development, etc..
A Video Editing Studio is used to provide
video production and animation services in close cooperation with
customers.
In addition the central output facilities of
large format plotters,
slide recorders and high quality color printers are maintained and operated.
We are also starting to offer VR-services related to visualization using
our new CUBE projection environment.
Services are complemented by coordinating the aquisition of visualization
and graphics software and consulting in their usage.
The major parts of these services are currently covered by six people from the
staff and
student support workers.
Research and Development
Many requirements of a visualization department in a high performance computing
environment can't be fulfilled by commercial off the shelf tools. Thus we are
involved in research and development activities together with external partners,
to develop tools or improve them. In addition we give support and consult
in introducing new tools or working modes. Thus we simplify the
access to HPC resources for widely distributed users and enable better
cooperation between partners. Improved capabilities of engineers and
researchers in gaining insight into complex simulation models in turn raise
the quality of HPC usage. These activities are persued by externally
sponsored research and development staff
together with
student support workers involved in dedicated projects with cooperation
partners. For more information about our research and development activities
please visit also our project page.
Covise
As a major result of our research and development activities the distributed
software environment COVISE has been developed.
It is our main software platform for further developments in the
fields of distributed processing,
collaborative working, direct steering of supercomputer simulations and
virtual reality interaction with simulation results. COVISE stands for
COllaborative VIsualization and
Simulation Environment. It is available on
Unix workstations from different vendors, on Linux-based PCs, and
supercomputers. It is optimized for network based distributed working.
A successor of COVISE called YAC is currently under development.
More information about COVISE is available here.
Mail
Let us know, what you think. If you have questions or want to know more
about us and our activities, just send an email
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