NEWS&Events
2008-06-20
Assisting the developers of the new San Elijo Lagoon and Nature Reserve visitor Center, Alex Quan (VizCenter intern) created a birds-eye view tour of the region around the Lagoon using Google Earth.
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2008-05-29
To gain insight as to how SIO scientists use IT resources, Dr. Wickham, a program manager for Australia's Academic and Research Network (AARNet), met with Dr. Graham Kent and Dr. Debi Kilb to discuss the current highlights and pitfalls of their research.
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2008-05-22
Partnering NSF funded projects pertaining to EarthScope and Cyberinfrasturcutre (CI), members from Cal State San Marcos (Dr. Hayden and Dr. Ouyang) met with SIO's Dr. Kilb to discuss development of CI tools for sixth grade Earth science teachers in the San Diego County school systems.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Swarm of Magnitude ~5 Earthquakes
2008-02-19
In February 2008, a swarm of four magnitude ~5 earthquakes occurred southeast of Calexico. These mainshocks were was felt by ~1000’s of people in the San Diego region. The largest earthquakes included: (1) A Magnitude 5.4 at 11:15 PM on Friday Feb 8th; (2) A magnitude 5.1 at 10:30 AM on Monday Feb 11th; (3) A magnitude 5.0 at 8:30 PM on Monday Feb 11th; and (4) A magnitude 5.0 at 2:41 PM on Tuesday Feb 19th.
SIO VizCenter represented at AGU
2007-12-10
Members from the SIO VizCenter demonstrated various collaborative projects at the 2007 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA from December 10-14. The high-resolution 35-megapixel MiniMe display was used to exhibit data sets from OOI, Ridge200 and Earthscope.
Earthquake Education Workshop
2007-08-12
Registration for the fifth annual Earthquake Education Workshop is now open.
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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.