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Advanced Visualization Systems in the ASC (Advanced Simulation and Computing) Era at LANL Talk by Dr. Dave Model, HPC Design Group, LANL
Dave Modl has and continues to support advanced visualization systems going back to the beginning of ASC [as ASCI] in the 1990s. Large and personal display systems supporting stereo 3D video output have been a part of this all the way through to today. The High Performance Computing [known as just Computing] Division when ASCI started was very involved with staff in X Division to create large scale support for analyzing larger and larger datasets as systems like Blue Mountain, Q, RoadRunner, et al, came on line. Users needed better visualization software and hardware to perform state-of-the-art analysis of these larger datasets. We will discuss those beginnings and the road that led to what we now do.
$10 admission; free for BSMA members (you can become a member on our Join Us page).
Wednesday, July 29 6-8pm at the Bradbury Science Museum (doors open at 6 and the talk starts at 6:30).
About the Speaker
Dr. Dave Modl has been a LANL Staff Member since 1996. Dave has worked in the Computing Division under various names over that time. Dave has been a part of the Visualization/Computer Graphics Group/Team in the Computing Division throughout his time at LANL. Dave started working with computer technology in the 1970s for the US Air Force. Dave is a UNM Lobo graduate with a CompE BS degree in 1990 and a EEMS degree in 1996. Dave has always been interested in how to create systems that allow users to visualize their work. It started at Kirtland AFB for the Air Force Weapons Laboratory in the 1980s. Once Dave signed on at LANL he was lucky enough to work with the Graphics Team that developed hardware and software systems which allowed users to see their complex data from simulations. That work has continued through to today supporting the Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program where he helped support and develop display systems starting in the old ‘Ad Building’, then the CCF ‘RAVE Facility’ and the Nicholas C. Metropolis Strategic Computing Complex where the Powerwall Theater and La Cueva Grande SuperCAVE™ continues to be supported and available for users to view and analyze complex simulation results.
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