Fwd: SUBJECT: VDE2000 Showdown Update and Datasets

[Will Schroeder]

As I've mentioned previously in this list, the folks at the Princeton Plasma Physics Library are holding a conference called "Visualization Development Environments 2000" later this month. As part of the conference, they are releasing data and asking folks to visualize it. (They are asking for no more than 20 minutes a dataset.)

If anyone wants to help me visualize the data, please let me know by volunteering for a particular dataset. I promise to give lots of credit at the conference!

Will


>Subject: SUBJECT: VDE2000 Showdown Update and Datasets
>
>
>Dear VDE2000 vendor,
>
>There are 5 datasets that can be found at the URL
>http://w3.pppl.gov/vde2000/data  Each directory includes
>a README to describe the data. Currently, data4 contains
>nothing, but it will contain files in the near future.
>You are encouraged to choose any or all of these datasets
>to demonstrate your package with at the Toolkit Showdown
>on Friday, April 28th.
>
>For the Toolkit Showdown session on Friday afternoon,
>April 28, we will have 2 identical Dell Dimension XPST
>750 PIII, with 512MB of memory and Nvidia Geoforce
>Plus Graphics Cards.  Each machine has Windows 2000
>loaded on it. One of the machines also has Windows
>NT 4.0 Service Pack 5; RedHat Linux may also be
>available if necessary.  Our plan is for each machine
>to also be on the Internet and loaded with PowerPoint,
>Netscape and associated plugins for VRML, MPEGs,
>AVIs, etc, as well as your various software packages.
>
>You are welcome to come on Wednesday, April 26, (the
>day before VDE2000) to set up your software on the
>machines.  We can also set software up on the machine,
>and will try to help as much as possible. Also, if you can
>give us the software beforehand, we can try to set
>things up ahead of time.  In fact, this may be the most
>desired way to set up, since it could help reduce last
>minute chaos associated with setting up.  If demos are
>not set up prior to the workshop, there won't be much
>time during the workshop itself to complete the setup
>(45 minutes during the poster session, and possibly a
>few other short periods during breaks or on Friday
>morning), and you can be sure with Murphy's law that
>something would go wrong in that case.  PLEASE
>NOTIFY ME IF YOU WANT TO COME THE DAY BEFORE, SO I
>CAN NOTIFY PPPL SECURITY!
>
>Please remember the showdown is supposed to inform people:
>
>1. How easy (or hard) was it to make the desired visualization.
>2. How much time you took to create the visualization.
>3. How fast is this visualization compared to other packages.
>4. What are the advantages of using your package.
>
>We request that:
>
>1. You do not go longer than the allocated time
>    (currently 20 minutes).
>2. PLEASE DO NOT BASH EACH OTHER PRODUCTS!!!
>3. You share any custom developed software or applications
>    used for the visualizations so that we can distribute
>    these on the web page.
>
>Curently we have 96 VDE2000 participants; we're pleased with
>this and are hoping for more.
>
>The status of each vendor giving a demo/showdown of
>their product is listed below:
>
>Vendor             Demo/Showdown/?/Not participating
>------             ----------------------------------
>AVS/Express        Showdown
>IDL                Showdown
>IRIS/Explorer      Showdown
>OpenDX             Showdown
>PVWave/JWave       Showdown
>TGS/MasterSuite    Showdown
>PV3                ?(BOB, CAN YOU DEMO PV3?)
>Scirun             ?(CHRIS, CAN YOU DEMO SCIRUN?)
>VTK                ?(WILL, IF YOU CAN'T ATTEND THE SECOND DAY, CAN YOU
>RECCOMEND SOMEONE
>                      TO AT LEAST DEMO, OR PARTICIPATE IN THE SHOWDOWN?)
>
>Please inform us if your status will change.  Also, if you'd
>like to participate in the showdown but your software won't run
>under Windows 2000, please let me know ASAP so we can try to
>work out appropriate arrangements.
>
>Thanks so much for your help with this.  We're really looking
>forward to the workshop.
>
>Regards,
>
>Scott

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