NEWS&Events
2008-12-16
The AGU poster "CyberTEAM Interactive Epicenter Locator Tool" presented work from a collaborative project between a computer scientist (Ouyang, CSSM), educational specialist (Hayden, CSSM) and a seismologist (Kilb, SIO).
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2008-12-16
Reporting on her collaboration with over 10 different groups, Debi Kilb (SIO) presented a talk at the AGU meeting titled "Integrating EarthScope Data Into Interactive Visualizations, Movies and High-Resolution Static Images".
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2008-12-15
Lead author Kathy Hayden (Cal State San Marcos) had an array of visitors at her poster "Exploring TechQuests Through Open Source and Tools That Inspire Digital Natives". This work included collaboration with SIO's Debi Kilb.
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News & Events Archive
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Magnitude 4.1 earthquake near Palomar California
2008-11-17
On November 17, 2008 a magnitude 4.1 earthquake occurred 10 miles north of the Palomar Observatory in southern California. Explore a 3D interactive visualization of data pertaining to this earthquake from the above link.
Real-time Movies
2008-10-11
View real-time movies from the ship deck, images and daily logs from the Marine EM survey in the Gulf of Mexico.
Updated USArray movie
2008-09-25
The movie titled: Temporal evolution of USArray stations and recorded seismicity, has been updated to include data up to June of 2008.
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VizCenter HIVE
The Highly Immersive Visualization Environment (HIVE) is a cylindrical wall display 28 feet wide and 8 feet tall installed in the Revelle Conference Room to provide immersive exploration capabilities to large groups of researchers (up to 40 people can be accommodated in the room). A 16 processor SGI Onyx 3400 drives three front mounted projectors that display on the Panoram GVR120E for a fully immersive environment.
Besides the SGI Onyx, the HIVE can also use a Windows PC (with the 3 channel Matrox graphics card) to display on the Panoram screen. The facility also has a DVD player, a VCR and the capability to connect any laptop using a VGA cable for presentation purposes.
VizCenter iCluster
The iCluster is a 50 megapixel tiled display visualization system built using Apple G5s and 30" monitors. This system is used to visualize real time data from the USArray network of sensors (part of the NSF funded Earthscope project) and other global observing systems. The iCluster is housed in the Earthscope Array Network Facility (ANF) office at IGPP and receives funding from the ANF, CEOA and Calit2.
The iCluster has been built using a 7 node PowerMac G5 cluster and 12 displays arranged in a 4 wide x 3 tall array. Each display supports a resolution of up to 2560 x 1600. Each cluster node is a dual 2.5 GHz PowerPC with 8 GB RAM and the powerful NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra graphics cards.
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The Visualization Center at Scripps provides a diverse array of research tools supporting real-time videoteleconferencing and lectures, webcasts, data sharing among distributed locations, live field reports, and real-time data acquisition and presentation. Its resources are also being applied to wider community needs, heightened response to natural and human induced disasters, and education and outreach. The center comprises high-resolution projection and tiled display systems supporting Earth system science visualizations that are driven by multiprocessor SGI machines and Linux and MacOS X clusters.