Center for Data Visualization and Collaboration

Located in the Seaver Science Center, the Center for Data Visualization and Collaboration (DVC) houses technologies that provide researchers with the means to teleconference, collaborate, and share complex information in high-resolution visual forms. Powerful tools for visualization give USC faculty and graduate students the ability to view HPCC-generated simulation data from different perspectives and perform large-scale, in-depth analyses requiring specialized equipment in a relatively risk-free setting.

The center includes a tiled display wall and an AccessGrid that provides video, audio, and networking equipment with high-speed access to distributed data and computers. This equipment may also be linked to support group-to-group interactions across USC's network and the Internet. The room contains three 65-inch, movable LCD screens that are capable of displaying one continuous image or three separate images.

AT &T Tile Wall:

The tile wall provides users with an economical and scalable means of displaying wall-sized images or computer simulations with very high resolution. Moving or still digital images are sliced up into a dozen smaller images by a small cluster of computers and then projected by a dozen digital projectors onto a 14-foot-wide and 8-foot-high, monolithic, all-glass screen. The rear-projected composite image, which contains roughly 9.5 million pixels, has remarkable clarity when viewed close up or at a distance.

AccessGrid:

The AccessGrid allows users to videoconference and collaborate interactively by way of the Internet. Three projectors, suspended from the ceiling, display computer simulations, films, live television feeds, or websites onto a wall-sized screen. Participants from a variety of locations--ranging from university classrooms and labs to hotel conference rooms and government offices--can come together virtually for meetings, collaborative work sessions, seminars, lectures, and training.