tohanson@gonzo.lerc.nasa.gov (Jeff Hanson) (06/12/90)
In the Call for Papers and Registration Information for the Fifth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing (March 1991), the following presentation is listed in the Visualization section - Scientific Visualization Craig Upson Silicon Graphics Would someone from SGI care to comment on what the creator of AVS is going to do now that he has changed companies? When can we expect something out here is the field? Will AVS be ported to SGI (so that it runs quickly, not so that it sells Stardent hardware, the current state) or will the new product be the first ViSC package from SGI? Anxiously waiting a reply. -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / Jeff Hanson \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / * ViSC: Better * tohanson@gonzo.lerc.nasa.gov * * * * * * / \ / \ Science / \ / \ NASA Lewis Research Center / \ / \ Through / \ / \ * * * * * * * Cleveland, Ohio 44135 * * * Pictures * * \ / \ / \ / \ Telephone - (216) 433-2284 Fax - (216) 433-2182 \ / \ / \ / *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
baskett%forest@SGI.COM (06/14/90)
Jeff Hanson asks: "Will AVS be ported to SGI ..." As many of you know, AVS was built at Stellar (now Stardent) by Craig Upson and his crew using some nice visualization tools, a straighforward (and rather limiting) data model, and an interconnection mechanism invented by SGI's own Paul Haeberli (see his Siggraph '88 paper on ConMan). It is a nice first generation scientific visualization product. SGI has attempted to license it from Stardent so that we could offer an efficient implementation of it to our customers. We have been unsuccessful in these attempts. They won't say no, of course, but they won't say yes either. It's almost as thought they would rather that we didn't have it. But they are no doubt busy with their other business and we can't wait around forever, either, especially considering that we and others know how to build second generation products that overcome many of the limitations of the first generation product and provide added richness as well as added functionality. So we currently expect that our customers will have to make do with some of the other first generation visualization products that are available on our systems and anxiously await second generation products. SGI will also attempt to be more sensitive to the porting issues for second generation products that seem to currently inhibit the spread of AVS. Forest Baskett Silicon Graphics