Data Analysis Services Group - September 2014

News and Accomplishments

VAPOR Project

Project information is available at: http://www.vapor.ucar.edu

KISTI Award:

Alan made several fixes to the isoline renderer, planned for VAPOR 2.4.  It is now ready for final testing.


Prepared a tutorial and talk for the upcoming Korea Supercomputing Conference.

Jiwoo Lee, and atmospheric scientists from KISTI, arrived for a two month visit.

John and Alan were reviewers for the KISTI sponsored VAPOR visualization contests, which had 19 submissions.

Alan ported the GRIB API (from ECMWF) to work on Windows.

Scott implemented the following for the GRIMs converter:DCReader.h stubs, Metadata.h stubs an dCartographic extents using Proj4

Scott reviewed pressure equations for elevation variable and found that the Barometric formula yielded the best results

Scott began implementing CAM and GRIB UI options for the vdcwizard

2.4 Development:


3.0 Development:


John continued implementation and testing of the version 3.0 DataMgr.

John also implemented OpenGL error testing functions.

Alan and John had a conference call with Mark Hedley from ECMWF.  He is interested in interfacing his python library in UCMWF to VAPOR, and we offered to provide assistance as needed.

The VAPOR group had a discussion about ways to improve the vapor GUI usability for 3.0.  Scott proposed a reorganization of the tabs, which works very well with our proposed arranging of items to reduce the visual clutter for non-expert users.  Alan and Scott are planning to work on developing a prototype UI to test these concepts

Administrative:

Education and Outreach:

Software Research Projects

Feature Tracking:

Climate data compression:

Production Visualization Services & Consulting

RFP


John and Dave Hart authored the final report of the Workflow Working Group.

John also participated in the User Enviroments Working.

John reviewed several versions of the Draft Technical Specification and contributed to the DAV section.

Publications, Papers & Presentations


Submitted for publication to Pacific Vis:
"Evaluating the Efficacy of Wavelet Compression for Turbulent-Flow Data" 

Submitted for publication to IEEE TVCG :Feature-Based Wavelet Compression for Visualization




Systems Projects

Data Services

Accounting & Statistics

Security & Administration

System Monitoring

System Support

ML - Data Analysis & Visualization Clusters

GLADE Storage Cluster

Data Transfer Cluster

Experimental Clusters

Test Clusters

Storage Usage Statistics

NWSC+GLADE+Usage+Report

Other