University of Texas and Compaq to co-operate on visualizationHouston 01 March 2001 Compaq and The University of Texas at Austin Center for Computational Visualization (CCV) have entered into a co-operative research relationship in advanced visualization techniques using high-performance computers and complex display equipment.Powering the lab's extensive computer processing requirements is a cluster of Compaq SP750 workstations. The 130 workstations and disk drives are networked using Compaq ServerNet II high-speed, low-latency interconnect technology.
Researchers can use the new tools to simulate events that take place at
very large scales like the explosion of a star, galactic motion or the
theoretical collision of black holes. They also can simulate extremely small-
scale events at the subatomic scale. Computerized images such as strata
underneath the earth's surface can be used to predict the production of oil
reservoirs. And researchers can examine the human body layer-by-layer or
cell-by-cell.
Testing complex theories in geophysics, astronomy, medicine and other
scientific disciplines produces such large amounts of data that scientists
often find it difficult to see the solution.
Examples can be seen at www.ticam.utexas.edu/ccv.
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