The first IEEE Symposium of BioVis is gearing up to rock Providence, Rhode Island next month along with the rest of VisWeek, and their website now shows the selected list of papers, abstracts, and keynotes. But if you want to go, you need to move quickly because the early registration period ends next Friday.
Early registration (reduced rate) for this meeting ends on Friday, 16 September. Single day and two day registrations are available in addition to full week registration. Discounts are available for ISCB, IEEE and ACM members, details are can be found on the registration page.
The goal of BioVis is to create the premier international and interdisciplinary event for all aspects of visualization in biology. This symposium will bring together researchers from the visualization, bioinformatics, and biology communities with the purpose of educating, inspiring, and engaging visualization researchers in biological data visualization, as well as bioinformatics and biology researchers in state-of-the-art visualization research. As the first annual BioVis Symposium, this event seeks to emphasize inclusion and interaction between these communities as its primary impact.
a keynote by Lynda Chin (MD Anderson Cancer Center / Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard)
a primer by Lawrence Hunter (UC Denver) and Kun Huang (Ohio State)
a special session on challenges in biological data visualization with invited speakers Arthur Olson (The Scripps Research Institute), Cydney Nielsen (BC Cancer Agency Genome Sciences Centre) and Willy Supatto (California Institute of Technology)
four paper sessions with 24 presentations from all areas of biology
27 posters and demos
presentation of the results from the BioVis Contest
SuperComputing 2011 is in Seattle this year and I think it’s no surprise to anyone that this year will be heavily influenced by the success of GPU-based supercomputers. To further emphasize this, they keynote will be presented by the man driving most of these machines, NVidia’s own Jen-Hsun Huang.
“Jen-Hsun Huang’s demonstrated leadership in parallel computing is well suited to the data-intensive thrust of the conference and the sustained performance focus of the Technical Program,” said Scott Lathrop, general chair of SC11 and director of outreach, and training for the National Science Foundation Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) project. “As we look to a world of rapid collection and analysis of data with computational resources reaching exascale proportions, we value the opportunity to hear Huang’s vision for how the community can address the huge demands for data-intensive computing and faster time-to-discovery.”
It’s a move that really cements NVidia’s place in the HPC ecosystem. Already driving several of the Top500′s biggest systems, I suspect they’ll continue to remain prominent on the list for some time.
If SIGGRAPH isn’t technical enough for you, then you’re in for a treat as Visweek2011 has just opened Registration. Visweek is the new combination of IEEE Visualization, IEEE InfoVis, and IEEE VAST, all in one week-long visualization extravaganza.
They have all the usual hotel rates, visa assistance, and travel options on their site as well.
Visu2011 will be on the12th of October, and features the french community of information visualization and computer graphics specialists. Attendees will get details on a good collection of topics including:
· Techniques visualization adapted to the new computing infrastructure, storage, communication and display.
· post-processing algorithms for analysis and visual interpretation of scientific data.
· Algorithms for the visualization of scientific data scale.
· Development representations taking into account the human perceptual abilities, combined with intuitive interaction techniques and ergonomic.
· Algorithms for the visualization of information (non-spatial data).
In addition, they’ll get a tour of the new “CCGT”, the computing center that is home to the 1.7 Petaflop “CURIE” supercomputing.
The website is French, but translates into English fairly well.
At the eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit San Francisco 2011, JoAnn Kuchera-Morin gave a nice 20-ish minute presentation on the AlloSphere. We’ve discussed the Allosphere before, but she gives a great presentation on some of the scientific benefits of seeing your data in such a huge & immersive setting.
The AlloSphere, a 30-foot diameter sphere built inside a 3-story near-to-anechoic (echo free) cube, allows for synthesis, manipulation, exploration and analysis of large-scale data sets in an environment that can simulate virtually real sensorial perception. It is a physical place designed to facilitate creativity and incubate ideas via collaboration. JoAnn takes us on a data trip through the brain and shows how they detect previously unseen patterns that could lead to new discoveries. Ever wonder what your data set might look like in 3D and sound like with 128 channels of audio?
If you want to see the visit, hit the link below (they’ve disabled embed’ing).
Infosthetics has a nice writeup of the Eyeo event from Jan Willem Tulp. In his Day 3 writeup, he discusses the presentations from infovis gurus Ben Fry and Nicholas Felton.
His talk was all about the “Annual Reports that he has been creating for some years now. He explained his fascination with measuring all sorts of aspects, like the number of plats killed, number of people met, and number of miles traveled (which included the number of miles in Grand Theft Auto). For Nicholas measuring everything is truly a way of living: “Every time I drink coffee or see Michael J. Fox, I have to take a note”. His 2010 Annual Report is about his father, who also seemed to have the same fascination of collecting and recording everything. It was great to see how he used services like Google Maps and Google Image Search in his CSI-like mission to find locations of images that his father had taken, but had no description or whatsoever of where the picture was taken.
Enrico Bertini has a great article online that’s a recap of his presentation at Visualizing Europe. Being quite possibly the only CS Visualization Researcher in a room full of non-researchers, he found himself in the minority and wondering how to discuss visualization with them. His solution:
After reflecting a little bit about their content and their frustration I recognized the same frustration in me and decided it was time to react. And my reaction, I decided, had to be a strong one. I realized in fact that the whole problem of visualization usefulness can be removed if we change our mindset. I realized that one of the reason why we ask ourselves whether visualization is useful or not is because we don’t have a clear focus on those problems in which visualization is not just useful, but plainly indispensable.
I’ve done this exercise myself many times for users. Visualization isn’t useful in all situations, as much as we may wish it was. But there are many many fields where it is a requirement, and those fields are typically overlooked because it’s old-hat.
At the InfoComm event right now in Orlando, FL, Mechdyne is on-hand showing their big CAVE and Display technologies on the floor in DPI’s booth. They’ll be showing 3D datasets, CABELib and VRScape apps, and (a surprise to me) in Unity.
At the show, Mechdyne will demonstrate a new interactive 3D application that helps users easily create virtual worlds with outstanding realism. With this new virtual reality toolkit it is easy to build dynamic 3D environments that can now include scripted behaviors, triggered physics and user interactions. Such 3D content could be used for training, presentations, simulations, research or design reviews.
Now, using Unity to develop 3D applications for the CAVE is a thought that honestly never occurred to me. If it’s true, it could be a great alternative to traditional CAVE systems like CAVELib and VRJuggler.
In just a few weeks, the CINECA supercomputing centre in Bologna, Italy will be hosting a Workshop on Visualization of Large Scientific Data.
The scientific community is presently witnessing an unprecedented growth in the quality and quantity of data coming from simulations and real-world experiments. Moreover writing results of numerical simulations to disk files has long been a bottleneck in high-performance computing. To access effectively and extract the scientific content of such large-scale data sets (often sizes are measured in hundreds or even millions of Gigabytes) appropriate tools and techniques are needed. In-situ visualization libraries enable the user to connect directly to a running simulation, examine the data, do numerical queries and create graphical output while the simulation executes. It addresses the need of extreme scale simulation, eschewing the need to write data to disk. The workshop will bring together researchers, developers, computational scientists for cross-training and to discuss recent developments and future advancements in remote and in-situ visualization
I see that staff from Kitware (VTK, ParaView) will be there, and it seems they’ll be talking a lot about VisIt as well. Both fabulous tools, but I find it interesting that CEI/Ensight isn’t mentioned anywhere…
The first IEEE Symposium of BioVis is gearing up to rock Providence, Rhode Island next month along with the rest of VisWeek, and their website now shows the selected list of papers, abstracts, and keynotes. But if you want to go, you need to move quickly because the early registration period ends next Friday.
SuperComputing 2011 is in Seattle this year and I think it’s no surprise to anyone that this year will be heavily influenced by the success of GPU-based supercomputers. To further emphasize this, they keynote will be presented by the man driving most of these machines, NVidia’s own Jen-Hsun Huang.
Visu2011 will be on the12th of October, and features the french community of information visualization and computer graphics specialists. Attendees will get details on a good collection of topics including:
At the eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit San Francisco 2011, JoAnn Kuchera-Morin gave a nice 20-ish minute presentation on the AlloSphere. We’ve discussed 
Infosthetics has a nice writeup of the Eyeo event from Jan Willem Tulp. In his Day 3 writeup, he discusses the presentations from infovis gurus Ben Fry and Nicholas Felton.
Enrico Bertini has a great article online that’s a recap of his presentation at Visualizing Europe. Being quite possibly the only CS Visualization Researcher in a room full of non-researchers, he found himself in the minority and wondering how to discuss visualization with them. His solution:
At the InfoComm event right now in Orlando, FL, Mechdyne is on-hand showing their big CAVE and Display technologies on the floor in DPI’s booth. They’ll be showing 3D datasets, CABELib and VRScape apps, and (a surprise to me) in Unity.
In just a few weeks, the CINECA supercomputing centre in Bologna, Italy will be hosting a Workshop on Visualization of Large Scientific Data.
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