Technology transfer

SCD provides technology transfer to the public and private sectors as part of its mission to offer computational, technical, and educational resources to the community.

SCD contributions to professional and technical conferences and societies

SCD staff members make significant contributions each year to numerous professional and technical conferences and societies associated with high performance computing and geosciences research. Some of these include:

Cray User Group: Reviewed papers submitted for future meetings, and chaired the Performance and Evaluation Special Interest Committee.
Parallel Tools Consortium: Hosted the annual meeting in Boulder in the month of June. Several SCD staff members participated in the Consortium. Managed Ptools exhibit at Supercomputing 96.
Supercomputing 96: Staff served as Technical Paper Selection Committee Chair, Student Paper Selection Committee Chair, Registration Chair, Committee Administrator, and Welcome Program Presenter.

SCD exhibits at professional conferences

SCD exhibits at professional conferences showcase atmospheric and related research activities to highlight new research results and raise awareness of the latest scientific visualization technologies. The exhibits focus on selected scientific visualizations of model output that demonstrate various methods for visualizing data. They also showcase enhancements to SCD's widely respected NCAR Graphics package. The two components are called the Visualization Theater and the NCAR Graphics kiosk.

SCD's Visualization Theater provides a stereo 3D theater-style presentation of virtual worlds derived from a wide variety of research endeavors. Focus areas include the NCAR Climate System Model, geophysical and and astrophysical turbulence, forest fires, mesoscale convective storms, tropical storms, cyclones, windstorms, global atmospheric chemistry, and more.

The NCAR Graphics demonstration brings a new interactive processing environment for data input, processing, and scientific visualization. Primary components of this environment are the powerful NCAR Command Language (NCL) for data ingest and processing and the interactive Graphical User Interface (GUI) providing point and click data input, selection, shaping, plus facile visualizations.

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GOIN97 conference support

GOIN97 was a conference of the Global Observation Information Network initiative. GOIN was launched in April 1993 by the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Japan. GOIN is a cooperative effort between the United States and Japan to strengthen bilateral cooperation in Earth observation information networks.

Specifically, GOIN seeks to coordinate requirements, strategies, activities, and resources of the participating agencies of the United States and Japan to assure a common approach and plan for developing interoperable bilateral and global networks and network services to support global change research, disaster monitoring, and collaboration in analyzing and using satellite and in-situ data. GOIN websites published by participants in both the United States and Japan provide more information about the initiative and its conferences.

SCD's NET Section hosted both a GOIN97 planning meeting on February 13-14th, 1997 and the GOIN97 Workshop on June 23-27th, 1997. Both of these meetings entailed:

Ongoing meeting logistics and network planning
Configuration of routing for demonstrations
Multicast support
Demonstration host configuration and optimization
On-site support, planning and implementation of host, projector, videoconferecning and network configuration
Videotaping of the conference.

MultiDimensional Applications and Gigabit Internetwork Consortium

SCD is collaborating with the DARPA-sponsored MAGIC-II (MultiDimensional Applications and Gigabit Internetwork Consortium) project and will share MAGIC visualization technology developments.

University of Rhode Island agreement

SCD has an agreement with the University of Rhode Island to jointly pursue research funding to support the development of advanced visualization labs and related technology transfer from UCAR to URI.

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