UT Austin has a news story up about their HPC “Ranger” and the associated visualization cluster “Spur”.
“Spur is the first-of-its-kind visualization resource to be tightly integrated with a high performance computing system (HPC) of Ranger’s magnitude,” Paul Navratil, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) visualization scientist, said. “Each Spur node is more than a researcher will have on their desktop or laptop, and the remote visualization aspect allows the researcher to perform his or her analysis on a powerful machine from a remote location. Researchers no longer have to come to the graphics resources. We’re bringing the graphics resources to them.”
Spur is based on the Sun Visualization System and uses hardware from AMD & NVidia to developer Remote visualization to users.
