The technical program of the 4th Ultrascale Visualization Workshop at SC09 is now available: http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/Ultravis09

Professor Ma gave an invited talk at the Pacific Graphics 2009 Conference.

Professor Kwan-Liu Ma gave an invited talk at the 10th International Computational Accelerator Physics Conference (ICAP 2009).

Ultravis Institute researchers along with combustion simulation scientists at the Sandia National Laboratory has successfully demonstrated in situ visualization at the petascale using up to 6480 processors of the Cray XT5 at NCCS/ORNL.

John Owens is Program Chair of "High Performance Graphics", August 2009.

Kwan-Liu Ma is Paper Chair of IEEE Visualization 2009 Conference.

John Owens is giving the keynote talk, "GPU Computing: Heterogeneous Computing for Future Systems", International Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop, Rome, May 18th.

PacificVis 2009 was held April 20-23 in Beijing, China. Members of the Ultravis Institute are playing leading roles in this conference.

Professor Kwan-Liu Ma spoke on "Space for Visualization" at the Neyman seminar of UC Berkeley on April 8th.

John Owens received the UC Davis Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering's Graduate Student Association Award for Graduate Teaching and Mentorship, April 2009.

The 2008 Workshop on Ultrascale Visualization will publish a Proceedings through IEEE.

John Owens was on the program committee for i3D 2008 (Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games), 2008.

John Owens was on the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing Program Committee [Applications], 2008.

John Owens was a moderator for the Graphics Hardware 2008 Panel: "GPUs vs. Multicore CPUs: On a Converging Course or Fundamentally Different?"

John Owens is editor of Proceedings of Graphics Hardware 2008

PacificVis 2009 will be held April 20-23 in Beijing, China. Members of the Ultravis Institute are playing leading roles in this conference.

Ken Moreland will be giving a tutorial at Supercomputing 2008 entitled "Large Scale Visualization with ParaView" on November 17, 2008.

SC08 Ultrascale Visualization Workshop will be held November 16, 2008 in Austin, TX. For more information, see http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/Ultravis08

Professor Maneesh Agrawala spoke at UC Davis on Visual Design Principles on November 13.

Ultravis Institute All-Hand Meeting was held at Argonne National Laboratory on November 11, 2008

Ken Moreland will be giving a tutorial at IEEE Visualization 2008 entitled "Advanced ParaView Visualization" on October 20, 2008.

Visualization 2009 will be held October 19-24 in Columbus, Ohio. Han-Wei Shen and Kwan-Liu Ma of the Ultravis Institute serve as a Program Chair and a Papers Chair, repsectively.

John Owens' SIGGRAPH Asia paper has been accepted for publication, as well as one with significant GPGPU interest.

Ultravis Institute researchers have extented the binary-swap image compositing algorithm to utilize any number of processors. Their paper reporting this work has been accepted by SC08.

Kwan-Liu Ma will give two keynote speeches at visualization conferences in Taiwan (September 24-25, 2008) and China (September 26-28, 2008).

Kwan-Liu Ma spoke at SIGGRAPH 2008 about Ultrascale Visualization.

John Owens is the co-instructor of a half-day course, "Beyond Programmable Shading: Fundamentals," at ACM SIGGRAPH 2008, August 2008.

The CScADS CScADS 2008 Workshop on Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization for Petascale Computing was held July 28-31, 2008 in Snowbird, Utah. This workshop aims to engage the community in the challenges of leadership computing and foster interdisciplinary collaborations. Many Institute members attended and played key roles in the conference.

The CScADS CScADS 2008 Workshop on Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization for Petascale Computing was held July 28-31, 2008 in Snowbird, Utah. This workshop aims to engage the community in the challenges of leadership computing and foster interdisciplinary collaborations. Many Institute members attended and played key roles in the conference.

John Owens is a speaker at the Workshop on Programming Massively Parallel Processors at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, July 7 - 10, 2008.

John Owens is a paper chair at Graphics Hardware 2008, and panel moderator for "GPUs vs. Multicore CPUs: On a Converging Course or Fundamentally Different?" in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, June 20 - 21, 2008.

John Owens is an instructor at the International PhD School in Algorithms for Advanced Processor Architectures located at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, June 9 - 12, 2008.

John Owens was papers chair at Graphics Hardware 2008, June, 2008.

Congratulations are in order to John Owens and Greg Humphreys! They have been awarded tenure as of summer, 2008.

Professor John Owens is teaching at the International PhD School in Algorithms for Advanced Processor Architectures in Copenhagen in June 2008.

In the latest release of their software development kit, NVIDIA's reference implementation of the isosurface extraction technique known as marching cubes uses the scan primitive from the Ultravis-developed CUDPP library.

A special session of CTS 2008 on "Visualization and Collaboration" is organized partly by Kwan-Liu Ma. CTS 2008 will be held in Irvine, CA during May 19-23. More information about this session will be available soon.

The Eurographics/IEEE VGTC 2008 Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV '08) will be held in Crete, Greece during April 14-15. Kwan-Liu Ma is a Program Chair.

Professor Kwan-Liu Ma will give a Plenary Speech at the 2008 SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, which will be held in Atlanta, GA March 12-14.

Professor Han-Wei Shen organized a MiniSymposium on Ultra-Scale Parallel Visualization for the 2008 SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, which will be held in Atlanta, GA March 12-14.

The 2008 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis '08) will be held in Kyoto, Japan during March 4-7. Kwan-Liu Ma is a Program Chair.

Professor Kwan-Liu Ma gave an invited talk at the Visualization and Data Anaysis 2008 Conference in San Jose, CA, on January 28th.

John Owens was on the Eurographics 2007 International Program Committee, Short Papers, 2007.

John Owens was on the program committee for the First Workshop on General Purpose Processing on Graphics Processing Units, October 4, 2007. For more information: http://www.ece.neu.edu/GPGPU/

"Meet the Scientists" Panel is a unique event the Ultravis Institute will bring to the IEEE Visualization 2007 Conference.

ACM SIGGRAPH presents Professor Nelson Max, an investigator of the Ultravis Institute, with the 2007 Steven A. Coons Award for outstanding creative contributions o to computer graphics.

Professor Kwan-Liu Ma has been awarded the 2007-2008 UC Davis College of Engineering Outstanding Mid-Career Research Faculty Award.

Professor John Owens of Ultravis Institute has won the Graphics Hardware 2007 Best Paper Award.

The Ultravis Institute All-Hands Meeting was held on August 10th at UC Davis.

Professor John Owens of Ultravis Institute delivered a lecture at SIGGRAPH 2007 on August 3rd for the course titled "GPGPU: General-Purpose Computation on Graphics Hardware"

The Workshop on Feature Extraction and Tracking (FET 2007) was held at UC Davis during August 1-2.

Professor Kwan-Liu Ma gave invited talks at the DOE Computer Graphics Forum on April 30th and May 1st.

Professor Kwan-Liu Ma gave an invited lecture on "Envisoning Scientific Data: Challenges and Research" at UCLA on April 23rd.

The Ultravis Institute kickoff meeting was held on February 17 at UC Davis.

Hongfeng Yu and Kwan-Liu Ma, members of Ultravis Institute participating in SC'06 High-Performance Analytics Challenges won the first place. November 14, 2006.

The First Workshop on Ultra-Scale Visualization was held on November 13 in Tampa Convention Center, Florida, in conjunction with SC06. All presentation slides can be downloaded from the Workshop web site.

On September 7, 2006 DOE announced $60 Million in new SciDAC projects. The Ultra-Scale Visualization Institute is one of the four new Institutes funded by the SciDAC program. For more information, refer to the press release.