Interested in scientific visualization and wonder what some of the more salient research issues are in computational visualization? Chris Johnson, director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the University of Utah, recently published his choice of the top 15 research problems facing this relatively new area of computational science. Although rather brief, Johnson’s paper provides a good summary of all 15 issues/problems.

An html version of the paper is available as well as a pdf version.

It’s no surprise that scientific visualization of the computational variety represents a critical area for high performance computing. The old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words could be no more accurate here. With the current ability to quickly perform astronomical size equations that result in tera- and petabytes of data, producing high resolution visualizations of data has tremendous value to “real-world” applications such as medical imaging and simulation and modeling of weather forecasts (such as mentioned in the previous post).

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