The Center for High Performance Computing hosts a world-class visualization laboratory. This laboratory, sponsored in conjunction with the university of New Mexico's Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments, conducts research that focuses on the design and implementation of visualization software architectures, novel visualization techniques, four-dimensional data representations, multi-screen graphical presentation systems, sound localization, parallel rendering algorithms, and new human-computer interfaces.
Flatland is the virtual environment developed to perform these investigations. Using Flatland as the base environment scientists can visualize and explore both their data and the computations that manipulate that data. Imagine, if you will, a scientist able to examine the real-time results of a simulation and, when he notices an anomally he would like to investigate, he turns to the program running the simulation and examines the code, possibly changing it on the fly. This is the dream of Flatland. The Flatland Gallery contains more images and movies of Flatland.
VISUALIZATION LAB COMPONENTS
8' Rear Projection Screen
8 node SGI Onyx/2
2 processor SGO Octane
6 Linux Graphics Workstations
1 Barco Projector
The Visualization Laboratory is not available for general usage.