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April 22, 2009 - UC Davis Genome Center installs HIPerSpace Technology The Genome Center at the University of California Davis (UCD), has installed a 4x3 (12 tile) display wall adopting our HIPerSpace technology and its CGLX software stack. This newly deployed OptIPortal delivers a combined 48 megapixels worth of display real-estate that will be used by faculty, researchers and students in the UCD Bioinformatics Core. ([Read More])

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April 17, 2009 - 'Cosmic Tree of Life' on HIPerSpace Wall The closest that artist Roger Ferragallo has come to displaying the full dimensions of his "Cosmic Tree of Life" digital painting was when he got the chance to display the latest version (2.0) of the art work on Calit2's HIPerSpace tiled display wall at UC San Diego recently. The digital painting measures 556 million pixels, and it was displayed on HIPerSpace's native 287 million pixelsl. If ever "Cosmic Tree of Life" is printed out in its current incarnation, the painting would measure 25 x 15 feet, so HIPerSpace permitted Ferragallo to see the full scope of his work on the tiled display system which measures 31.8 x 7.9 feet. In a video posted on YouTube, Ferragallo talks about displaying and interacting with his work on the HIPerSpace wall. "Cosmic Tree of Life" is also being exhibited online and interactively at GigaPan.com, a project by Carnegie Mellon University with partners, Google Earth, NASA Ames and National Geographic, for displaying panoramic images online. (Read More)

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March 3, 2009 - Coastal Bluff Imaging Study Featured in SIO Explorations Researchers from UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Jacob School of Engineering are studying California's coastline to understand how sand from sea cliffs contributes to San Diego's world-famous beaches. "This is the one we have been waiting for," said Scripps researcher Liz Johnstone after arriving at a bluff section at Flat Rock, a popular area for beachgoers at Torrey Pines State Park, that collapsed in September 2008. A 75-foot section of unstable bluff dumped 1,000 tons of sand onto the beach below in the collapse. The section that came tumbling down was from a 45- to 48-million-year old sandstone formation and was one of several collapses along that same stretch of beach in the state park. (Read More)

Costal Bluff Erosion Monitoring

January 9, 2009 - DOE Awards Supercomputing Grant for Extreme Visualization of Cultural Patterns High-performance computing and the humanities are connecting at the University of California, San Diego - with a little matchmaking help from the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Visual arts professor Lev Manovich talks about the cultural analytics project, and why Calit2's HIPerSpace ultra-high-resolution display wall is part of the research project. The two agencies have awarded 330,000 hours of time on DOE supercomputers to UC San Diego’s Software Studies Initiative (softwarestudies.com) to explore the full potential of cultural analytics in a project on “Visualizing Patterns in Databases of Cultural Images and Video.” The grant is one of three inaugural awards from a new Humanities High Performance Computing Program established jointly by DOE and NEH. (Read More)

Software Studies

2008

• 11/18/2008 The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) adopts our HIPerSpace design for Stallion.
• 11/07/2008 Article about Coastal Bluff Erosion Monitoring and Modeling Project features PhD candidate Michael Olsen.
• 11/01/2008 CGLX will power multiple, major display systems at SC08. Stay tuned for a full report.
• 10/31/2008 CISA3 Researchers Look Into the Past with High-Resolution Digital Scans of Italy's Palazzo Medici
• 10/29/2008 High-Tech Search for Legendary Warlord
• 10/27/2008 Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation: The OptIPortal goes to School
• 10/15/2008 Our visual analytics research will help drive The Search for the Hidden Tomb of Genghis Khan
• 10/14/2008 Calit2 & KAUST are partnering to create world-class visualization and virtual reality research and training activities
• 10/14/2008 The extension to the San Diego Supercomputer Center is dedicated and with it a new 80 mega pixel OptIPortal powered by our visual analytics tools.
• 10/08/2008 CGLX v1.2.2 (Salamander) has been released, including major enhancements
• 10/06/2008 Our HIPerWall Technology and related research are featured in UC Irvine's Shaping the Future Video
• 10/02/2008 Structural Engineers and Computer Scientists Hope to Integrate Disciplines to Revolutionize Building Construction
• 09/20/2008 Space and HIPerSpace: Mars Rover's Rendezvous with Calit2 Display
• 09/17/2008 3D Virtual Reality Environment Developed at UC San Diego Helps Scientists Innovate.
• 09/16/2008 Larry Smarr blogs about HIPerVerse on Calit2Life
• 09/15/2008 HIPerVerse breaks 1/2 gigapixel barrier during CalREN-XD/High Performance Research Workshop
• 09/08/2008 Intel Donates 200 Microprocessors to Promote our Visualization Research
• 08/14/2008 CGLX now downloaded over 4,000 times and driving nearly all major multi-tile systems.
• 08/25/2008 Our group takes center stage at NVISION 2008 with the OptIPortable (HIPerSpace Nano) placed in the atrium of the San Jose Convention Center.
• 07/10/2008 UK News Service Says, 'Now That's a Big TV'
• 06/26/2008 The Cross-Platform Cluster Graphics Library, (CGLX v1.2.1) is now available packaged for Mac-OSX
• 06/25/2008 NASA launches hyperwall-2 for second place in ulta-high res tiled displays. HIPerSpace remains in first place and HIPerWall is now third.
• 06/16/2008 286 mega pixel edition of HIPerSpace unveiled during meeting with National Geographic Society at UCSD
• 06/12/2008 HIPerSpace fully operational at 286,720,000 pixel resolution
• 06/03/2008 Latest Spitzer Space Telescope data screaming on HIPerSpace in full beauty, using new algorithms for giga pixel visualization
• 06/01/2008 The Cross-Platform Cluster Graphics Library, (CGLX v1.2.1) is now available as a roll for ROCKS (HIPerRoll)
• 04/22/2008 Our research about the Search for the Lost Leonardo is featured on CBS 60 Minutes
• 04/10/2008 BlueMarble as you have never seen it before. 44 giga pixel image deck fully interactive on HIPerSpace.
• 03/10/2008 National Geographic Society and Florence team up on project
• 01/02/2008 UC San Diego Researchers Acquire Data on Renaissance Landmark in Search for da Vinci Mural