Data Analysis Services Group - November  2015

News and Accomplishments

VAPOR Project

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

TG GIG PY6 Award:

WASP Award:
The WASP project is on hold until work on the VAPOR 2.5.0 release is completed.

KISTI Award:
John authored and submitted the year-end project report to KISTI. All milestones were met.

2.x Development:
Release candidate 0 for VAPOR 2.5.0 was completed and made available on the VAPOR web site. Much of November was spent preparing for the release: fixing bugs, writing documentation, regression testing, and preparing installers.

  • Scott performed platform tests: Win (7, 8, 10), OSX (10.8, 10.9, 10.10), Redhat 6.
  • Scott documented stereo rendering, contour annotations, and parallel data conversion features, and fixed numerous bugs. 
  • John worked with Yonsei University student Hoseung Choi to complete last minute integration and testing of a RAMSES AMR data importer.

3.x Development

Scott wrote  a set of 10 color transform functions to generate divergent color maps based on an algorithm published by Ken Moreleand. Wrote a test harness for verifying the interpolation. Currently finishing integration into VAPOR 3.0 branch.

Alan implemented the 3.0 changes previously proposed for user preferences (Startup and App Settings).  We are finalizing these capabilities in ongoing 3.0 meetings.


Administrative:

John submitted a ASP Graduate Visitor Program application to have Samuel Li return to NCAR for a three month visit starting in January.

Education and Outreach:

Scott applied changes to Vapor’s google account according to Rebecca Swisher’s requests.

John attended SC15 and was a panelist for a panel entitled "In Situ Methods: Hype or Necessity?"

Software Research Projects

Feature Tracking:

Climate data compression:

Production Visualization Services & Consulting

Scott continued working on the Keypas ocean visualization: 

  • Data exploration ­ running up to 12 VAPOR instances on 6 geyser nodes at a time to find regions of interest in the data. Attended Dianne Thompson’s seminar on coral reproductive connectivity and variability
  • Got approval from Rich Loft to collaborate with Matt Rehme for post­production of Joanie’s visualization
  • Problems Encountered:
    • Disappearing flow lines due to c­grid interpolation
    • Incorrect sea level height according to Fredreic Castruccio


Scott was interviewed by Jeff Smith from the President’s office for a news article on visualizing Peter Sullivan’s LES. Provided a high­res still­frame of Peter’s LES for use as a cover image for MMM’s 2015 Program Operating Plan.

Scott Helped Xiaoming Cai from the University of Bermingham with several rendering questions

 Alan reviewed the document that Jim Schiavone (Rutgers U.) has been writing, using VAPOR to analyze the 500m Hurricane Sandy data.  Jim is planning on a new draft that incorporates these changes.

Alan has been helping Rich Rotunno use VAPOR to perform visualization of a new hurricane simulation that he and George Bryan ran using CM1.  Rich wants to understand the turbulence that occurs in the eye wall of the hurricane

 

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GLADE Storage Cluster

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