XSEDE Training: Introduction to Scientific Visualization

February 7, 2013 (Thursday)
9 a.m. - 5 p.m. (CT)
ROC 1.603

J.J. Pickle Research Campus
10100 Burnet Rd.
Austin, TX

This is an in-person class. There will be no webcast.

On Thursday, February 7, members of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) Visualization and Data Analysis group will present the training session, Introduction to Scientific Visualization.

Users will receive instructions on the use of remote visualization software to visualize data sets generated on TACC compute systems. A review of the scientific visualization process will precede an overview of the visualization software available to TACC users, including the parallel visualization software VisIt and Paraview. Labs will provide students with the opportunity to prepare data sets to be visualized using these applications. In addition, attendees will be introduced to the Longhorn visualization portal.

Agenda

09:00 – 10:15 Introduction to Scientific Visualization
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 11:45 Introduction to Information Visualization
11:45 – 01:00 Lunch
01:00 – 02:00 Visualization using ParaView
02:00 – 03:00 Visualization using VisIt
03:00 – 03:15 Break
03:15 – 04:00 Remote & Collaborative Visualization
04:00 – 05:00 Parallel Visualization