Support and Service
Support and Service is given in the following areas:
Scientific Visualization
The visualization of scientific data is essential for data analysis, visual debugging of algorithms and for the presentation of scientific results. In this context, the users’ very large data sets are stored on the central storage systems at JSC and cannot easily be transferred to and processed on the user’s local workstation. To give visualization jobs direct and seamless access to this data, the rendering must be performed on the HPC systems directly utilizing remote visualization techniques. ATML Vis offers in particular: Software packages for data visualization on the HPC systems, remote visualization tools, expertise in In-Situ visualization.
Virtual Reality
Whenever the scientific data has a complex 3D structure, it is of advantage to use special visualization display systems, so called virtual reality (vr) devices. To this end, affordable head mounted displays are applied at JSC. With these devices the stereoscopic exploration of data as well as the interactive construction and manipulation of 3D structures with tracked input devices is possible. As 3D rendering backend, the Unreal Engine is used.
Multimedia
In order to be able to present scientific results and workflows to a broader audience, we also work on the creation of multimedia productions. The video editing software Adobe Premiere together with Adobe After-Effects is used to create video clips. 3D animations are created with the free software package Blender. This workflow is used to explain scientific phenomena, but also to present and explain our in-house-tools and service operation workflows.
Interactive Supercomputing
Interactive exploration and analysis of large amounts of data from scientific simulations, in-situ visualization and application control are convincing scenarios for explorative sciences. Based on the open source software Jupyter or JupyterLab, a way has been available for some time now that combines interactive with reproducible computing while at the same time meeting the challenges of support for the wide range of different software workflows. On supercomputers, the method enables the creation of documents that combine live code with narrative text, mathematical equations, visualizations, interactive controls, and other extensive.