This lecture will be our first field trip to NERSC, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center. We will tour the center and get an introduction about how a national center is providing both supercomputing cycles and an intellectual environment to its scientific user community.
One aspect of the NERSC Center is the Visualization Lab. Staff from the NERSC Visualization group will present an introduction to the field of scientific visualization and give a tour of the lab.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is just straight up the hill from Soda Hall. For general directions to Berkeley Labs click here. The easiest way to get up the hill is to take the Lab Shuttle bus. The bus stop for the Lab Shuttle nearest to Soda Hall is just across Hearst Ave in front of Cory Hall (same bus stop as AC Transit and others). Make sure that you stand near the curb, where the LBNL logo is stenciled on the sidewalk. Just get onto the shuttle like everyone else: If the driver asks you for identification, just say that you are a guest of a Lab activity. The shuttle lets people off at the Lab's Reception Center, Building 65, where you can pickup a site map.
The tour will begin with a lecture at 2:10 p.m. in the Building 50 Auditorium. The building 50 complex is across the street from the Lab's Reception Center. Just cross the street at the crosswalk, and walk up a set of wooden steps and enter the building. This is the bottom of the hill back door. Take the elevator to the forth floor, which is the main floor when entering the building from the top of the hill. On the forth floor you will have to cross the complex pretty much diagonally to reach the auditorium. Building 50 has about the same complexity as Dwinelle Hall on campus, so the best strategy is to ask your way around. There is no on-line floor plan, but there are floor plans rigth next to the elevators.
The latest issue of IEEE Computational Science and Engineering Vol. 3, No. 4, Dec. 1996, is a theme issue about Interactive Visualization and Computational Steering in Visual Supercomputing.
An annotated bibliography of scientific visualization web sites around the world.