As part of the Computational Physics Department, KIPAC's visualization and data analysis facilities provide hardware and software solutions that help users at KIPAC and SLAC to analyze their large-scale scientific data sets. Examples include interactive real-time 3D visualization methods for state-of-the-art numerical computational fluid dynamics and N-body simulations and tiled-display systems for high-resolution astrophysical image data. With its stereoscopic 3D presentations, KIPAC is also actively contributing to the public outreach program at Stanford and SLAC.
Now Playing at a Theater Near You: the Universe
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The current visualization facilities at KIPAC include • a (4m x 2.5m) stereo-projection driven by 2 full-HD projectors • a tiled display with 5x3 monitors (effective resolution 5400x5760 pixels)and a GPU cluster with 4 nodes •Dual quad-core Intel Xeon E5540 CPUs at 2.53GHz 48GB of RAM •Two Tesla 1060 (non-Fermi) GPUs (each with 240 cores and 4GB of RAM) CUDA/OpenCL 3.1 drivers installed