----------------------------------------------------------------------------- SFI Colloquium Series presents: "Emerging Trends in High Performance Scientific Visualization" a talk by Thomas More Jackman Imaging Science & Measurement Technology Group Physical Sciences Department IBM Research TUESDAY, JUNE 15 12:15 p.m. SFI's Medium Conference Room ABSTRACT Developments in processor speeds, memory access, device interconnections, and data storage, as well as the profusion of the internet, are some of the trends which are shaping computing technology as we enter a world of teraflop and pervasive computing, but which are contributing to an explosion of data. The demands and techniques of visual computing to aid in the analysis of the growing body of data are shadowing the developments elsewhere in information technology. The trend is to analyze larger, higher dimensional and more complex datasets and to disseminate this data comprehensively and comprehensibly to various classes of users. The emerging issues of scientific data representation, exploration, dissemination, parallelization, interaction, and presentation in a high performance computing environment are discussed using examples taken from chemistry and geology. Chris Clary Program Office Santa Fe Institute 1399 Hyde Park Road Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-8800 ext. 238 (voice) 505-982-0565 (fax) cnc@santafe.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Directions from Santa Fe's Historic Downtown Plaza to SFI From the corner of Palace and Washington, turn onto Washington. Go through the light at Paseo de Peralta and take a right at the next light, Artist Road (which becomes Hyde Park Road). Drive 1.4 miles up the hill and immediately after you pass the intersection of Gonzales, there are three boulders on the left. The Institute is located on the first dirt driveway to the left immediately after the boulders (about 20 yards past the intersection of Gonzales). There is an adobe-colored wall with a Santa Fe Institute sign which is visible only when you reach the driveway. Turn left into the driveway and drive to the top of the road to reach the Institute's main building. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------