High-End Computing Capability
Computing power to answer NASA's complex science and engineering questions
Data Analysis and Visualization Services
We offer both traditional and custom data analysis and visualization services to help you gain insight into your complex scientific datasets.
While users often do their own visualizations for standard or smaller amounts of data, our experts will work closely and iteratively with those of you dealing with large, complicated datasets to get to the heart of what you're looking for.
Basic Services
To request any of the following data analysis and visualization services at no charge, please contact the NAS Control Room: (800) 331-8737, (650) 604-4444, support@nas.nasa.gov.
- Traditional Post-processing Visualization
- Capture, process, and render high-resolution graphics and videos; we employ a wide variety of scalar and vector field visualization:
- Slices, surfaces, volume rendering, particle traces, surface flows, raycasting, vortex cores, surface separation, derived quantities and spaces...you name it.
- We have experience with a wide variety of gridding systems, such as: point-based, structured, unstructured; vertex and cell-centered; arbitrary cell types (such as tets, hexes, prisms), and overset and adaptive mesh data.
- Deploy custom tools and techniques as needed for viewing "unusual" data.
- Consult on technical issues such as managing memory and storage requirements.
- Capture, process, and render high-resolution graphics and videos; we employ a wide variety of scalar and vector field visualization:
Additional Services
Our visualization experts can also provide help with the following in-depth services. Such services may require external funding based on the required level of effort.
- Concurrent Visualization
- Data analysis and rendering at a scale and frequency not otherwise possible, providing deeper insight into models, codes, and results.
- Instrumentation of simulation codes that allows you access to every simulation time step.
For further information on these in-depth services, please contact:
Chris Henze
Data Analysis & Visualization Group Lead
christopher.e.henze@nasa.gov
(650) 604-3959
Benefits
- Insights gained from ability to view data that can't easily be loaded into commercial-off-the-shelf software, and seeing complete time series—possibly at every time step.
- Presentation-quality graphics allow dissemination of significant results.
- Rapid delivery of your time-critical visual requirements.
- The hyperwall-2 visualization system, combined with HECC supercomputers, allows for concurrent visualization, where images of every time step can be saved (in addition to normal checkpoints) without incurring the storage and run-time overhead incurred by writing full simulation data to disk.
Record of Success
Our visualization experts have applied their high-end visualization techniques to many applications benefiting projects in all NASA mission areas. For example, high-resolution simulations and critical visualization of computational results are helping university researchers interpret observations gathered from instruments such as NASA's Hubble, Chandra, and Spitzer space telescopes. Our Data Analysis and Visualization team also created an analytical model that correctly predicts properties of the elliptical galaxies created in galaxy mergers to calculate the entire evolving population of early galaxies.
User Quick Links
Can't find what you're looking for? NAS Control Room staff are available 24x7x365: (800) 331-8737, (650) 604-4444, support@nas.nasa.gov
Success Stories
Animations of Dark Matter Produced for Planetarium Shows
NAS visualization experts have generated astronomically large-scale, high-resolution animations of dark matter in Earth's galactic neighborhood. The animations will be featured in planetarium shows offering science and education information for the public.
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Visualizations of Typhoon Morakot Help Scientists Improve Weather Simulation
Scientists are exploring detailed views of a devastating typhoon using concurrent visualization technology developed in the NAS Division.
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