2024-12-12 –, Expedition
An overview of the data visualization options that are available on Snellius, including support from SURF.
This presentation will touch upon a few technical topics such as remote visualization, OpenOnDemand and GPU usage. But also a few non-technical things such as high-level workflows, support and courses. We will also show some visualization examples.
Paul Melis is senior visualization advisor in the High-Performance Computing & Visualization group at SURF, having worked at SURFsara and SARA since 2009. He provides data visualization support for HPC users on Snellius, works on visualization projects (both internal and external) and still occasionally finds the time to do some C++/Python/Javascript/Julia/ development.
Besides supporting HPC users with visualization, he spends part of his time on XR innovation for education and research, including co-organizing National XR Day and coordinating the XR Developer Network.
For the past 10 years I have been a visualization advisor at SURF. During my time at SURF, I came in touch with the many categories of visualization, through many educational and research fields. The one thing that stuck out to me the most and proved to be the most useful, was creating web-based 3D visualizations. Naturally, due to curiosity, interest from our members and my affinity to 3D content, XR grew to be a part of the work I do at SURF.