2007-06-17
Mercury Computer Systems, Visualization Sciences Group, and NVIDIA® to
reduce time to scientific discovery from hours to minutes
Mercury’s Avizo 3D™ Visualization Software
uses NVIDIA CUDA™ High-Performance Visual Computing Technology to deliver
unprecedented speed in pre-processing complex materials
structures
Dresden, Germany, June 17 - Mercury Computer Systems (NASDAQ: MRCY)
Visualization Sciences Group, partnering with the Institute of Condensed
Matter Chemistry of Bordeaux (ICMCB-CNRS – National Centre for Scientific
Research) integrated NVIDIA CUDA technology into the Avizo 3D visualization
framework, tremendously reducing the time to pre-process very large micro-tomography
datasets.
Long-time advanced users of the Avizo 3D visualization software, the
ICMCB-CNRS leads highly demanding research projects that require the
usage of high-performance techniques to visualize and quickly process
very
large amounts of scientific data.
Dominique Bernard, Research Director at the ICMCB-CNRS explains: “a
typical materials analysis, using micro-tomography data, encompasses
the segmentation of 3D images into regions that correspond to the various
phases of a selected sample. As we work on 3D large datasets, the execution
is slow in most cases
and furthermore requires several passes.
The integration of CUDA algorithms
into Avizo enables an even higher quality and more concise image filtering. The
simultaneous visualization
of the image evolution while it is being calculated enables us to adjust
our numerous filtering parameters and obtain the results within an
extremely shorter timeframe.”
Mercury Visualization Sciences Group leverages its high-end visualization
framework combined with NVIDIA® powerful computational technologies to
allow materials scientists to get their pre-processing results within
a time scale that drops down from hours to minutes, as shown in the below
chart:
By exploiting CUDA technology, Avizo™ 3D Visualization framework achieves
interactive image segmentation where the progress of the segmentation
can be tracked and influenced interactively, bringing much faster and
highly-concise insight into raw image data.
This seamless interoperability between GPU computing and advanced visualization
techniques makes Avizo “understanding-by-visualization” solution for
researchers and scientists who are looking for on-the-fly computation
coupled to interactive 3D visualization.
With today’s announcement of the new Tesla C1060 computing processors,
this boost in performance is set to increase even further. The Tesla
C1060 features double precision accuracy and, with 240 processor cores
delivering 1 Teraflop per GPU, double the performance of previous generation
products, Combined with double the on-board memory (4GB), the Tesla C1060
is helping the Mercury Visualization Sciences Group to handle and quickly
process incredibly large and complex amounts of data.
For more information
about Avizo™ and HPC-powered 3D visualization solutions, visit Mercury
Visualization Sciences Group in stand #F01 at the International Supercomputing
Conference 2008 (Dresden, Germany), visit 3dviz.mc.com,
or contact Mercury at 3d_info@mc.com. About About Avizo™, the 3D visualization framework
Avizo software is a powerful, multifaceted tool based on Open Inventor® by
Mercury for visualizing, manipulating, and understanding scientific and
industrial data. Wherever 3D datasets need to be processed, in materials
and physical science, Non Destructive Testing, geosciences or engineering
applications, Avizo offers abundant state-of-the-art features within
an intuitive workflow and easy-to-use graphical user interface.
For more information, visit http://3dviz.mc.com/avizo
About NVIDIA® CUDA™ technology
NVIDIA CUDA™ Technology is the world’s only C language environment that
provides access to processing power of NVIDIA GPUs. It enables developers
to utilize NVIDIA GPUs to solve the most complex computation-intensive
challenges such as oil and gas exploration, financial risk management,
product design,
medical imaging, and scientific research.
For more information, visit http://www.nvidia.com/cuda
About the ICMCB-CNRS
Of national and international fame, the Institute
of Condensed Matter Chemistry of Bordeaux (ICMCB – National Centre for
Scientific Research, Bordeaux University) is involved in the Solid State
Chemistry,
Materials Science, and Molecular Sciences.
In 4 research areas – Energy, Functional Materials, Nanomaterials, Environment
and Sustainable rowth -, the ICMCB researchers design, characterize, model, assemble
materials of the future from the nanoparticle to the macroscopic crystal. The
institute also includes about twenty shared facilities, and three resources centers.
For more information, visit http://www.icmcb-bordeaux.cnrs.fr/
About VSG, the Visualization Sciences Group of Mercury Computer Systems
VSG is the leading provider of interactive 3D visualization software
solutions, for the most demanding industrial and scientific applications
including Large Data Management, data fusion, dynamic GPU computation,
post-processing of multi-physics simulation, from desktop to augmented
reality, from local rendering to remote visualization. VSG helps its
customers succeed in geosciences, materials science, oil & gas, manufacturing,
and engineering, supported by a world-class organization. Visit VSG
at 3dviz.mc.com.
Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. is based in Chelmsford, Massachusetts,
and serves customers worldwide through a broad network of direct sales
offices, subsidiaries, and distributors. We are listed at the NASDAQ
National Market (NASDAQ: MRCY), visit Mercury at www.mc.com.
Contacts:
Laurent Billy
Director, Marketing & Communication
Visualization Sciences Group
Mercury Computer Systems
lbilly@mc.com
http://3dviz.mc.com
+33 556 13 71 50
Avizo is a trademark of Mercury Computer
Systems, Inc. CUDA is a trademark of NIVIDIA Corporation. Open Inventor
and OpenGL are registered trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc. in the
U.S. and/or other countries worldwide, used under license from Silicon
Graphics, Inc. All other company and/or
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the respective owners with which they are associated..
Copyright © 2008 Mercury Computer Systems and NVIDIA Corporation. All
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