This is an archival copy of the Visualization Group's web page 1998 to 2017. For current information, please vist our group's new web page.

What's New?

Previous news.

• September 28, 2009
  The Berkeley Lab visualization group is a partner on an NSF visualization and data analysis facility – the Center for Remote Data Analysis and Visualization – to be located at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. HPCwire story.


• July 10, 2009
  SciDAC Review Journal Summer 2009 cover image.


• June 1, 2009
  Hank Childs, formerly at LLNL, joins the Visualization group.


• May 1, 2009
  Mark Howison joins the Visualization group.


• July 14, 2008
  Visualization group staff win "People's Choice Awards" at the SciDAC 2008 Visualization Night. See this page for more information about the award-winning visual animation of climate simulations performed by our team.
  (MPEG movie, 14MB)
  Another animation from our group was a runner-up. See this page for more information about this entry.
  (MPEG movie, 70MB)


• June 10, 2008
  We thought it was lost to antiquity, but found and reinstated images and movies we made for Saul Perlmutter (LBNL, Physics Division) circa 1998. At one time, this image and movie were one of the most downloaded items from the LBNL visgroup webpage. See /Museum/oldFacilities/gallery/.


• September 1, 2007
  Added two new pages on the subject of svPerfGL, an OpenGL graphics benchmark that measures rendering performance of OpenGL implementations under a typical scientific visualization workload.
  • svPerfGL project page.
  • svPerfGL blurb on our Software page.


• May 21, 2007
  Added three new vignettes:
  
  • Sunfall, Visual Analytics for Astrophysics
    
  • Fast Contour Descriptors for Supernova Image Classification
    
  • Supernova Recognition using Support Vector Machines
    
  and four research projects:
  • Sunfall
    
  • SpectraVis
    
  • Fast Contour Descriptors for Supernova Image Classification
    
  • Machine Learning for Supernova Detection
    


• April 5, 2007
  Added a new link to L. Gosink's research in enabling discovery of relationships between multiple variables in large and complex data.
  Added three new publications:
  • CHI 2007 workshop paper: The Impact of Usability on Supernova Discovery
  • SPIE 2007 paper: A Fast Contour Descriptor Algorithm for Supernova Image Classification
  • Astrophysical Journal paper: Nearby Supernova Factory Observations of SN2006D


• March 22, 2007
  In collaboration with the SciDAC Visualization and Analytics Center for Enabling Technologies and the NERSC Analytics program, the LBNL Visgroup's Cristina Siegerist produced stunning visuals for the Spring 2007 issue of the SciDAC Review Magazine, including an image for the journal cover.


• March 8, 2007
  Raquel Romano and Cecilia Aragon (LBNL Visualization Group) and Chris Ding (LBNL Scientific Group) win one of two Best Paper Awards at the 2006 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, December 14-16, 2006, Orlando FL, USA. Their paper is Supernova Recognition Using Support Vector Machines.


• March 2, 2007
  New NERSC Analytics web content goes live.


• Feb 13, 2007
  Created new top-level page for Visualization Group Software.


• Jan 9, 2007
  Janet Jacobsen joins the LBNL Visualization Group.


• Jan 4, 2007
  Gunther Weber joins the LBNL Visualization Group.


• Jan 3, 2007
  The Visapult-2 source tarball and semViewer/virtual protractor source tarball are now located on HPCRD's Codeforge server.


• Nov 24, 2006
  New publication:
  • SC06 Technical Program paper on Query-Driven Visualization.
  New presentation:
  • SC06 workshop presentation on Query-Driven Visualization.
  New vignette:
  • Plasma-Wakefield Particle Accelerator Simulation by Cameron Geddes, computed at NERSC as part of a DOE Incite award.


• Nov 13, 2006 LBNL Visualization Group demos at SC06 in Tampa, FL.


• Nov 3, 2006 HPCwire interview of E. Wes Bethel on the subject of the SciDAC2 Visualization and Analytics Center for Enabling Technologies.


• Nov 3, 2006 The IEEE Visualization 2006 "Best Panel Award" goes to Is There Science in Visualization? The panel, organized by TJ Jankun-Kelly of Mississippi State University, included LBNL's E. Wes Bethel as a panelist.


• Nov 1, 2006
  Kurt Stockinger joins the LBNL Visualization Group.


• Sep 7, 2006 DOE announces the funding awards for the SciDAC2 program. As part of that program, LBNL is the lead institution of the SciDAC2 Visualization and Analytics Center for Enabling Technology. Partnering with LBNL are visualization experts from LLNL, ORNL, Utah/SCI and UC Davis/IDAV.


• May 19, 2006 Added a new vignette describing research results where query-driven visualization is applied to a hero-sized network traffic analysis problem. Similarly, updated our research page with some information about our query-driven visualization program.


• March 21, 2006 To better show off our group's work, we created a gallery showing our creations that have appeared on covers of journals, magazines, etc.