Researchers who need help visualizing data to demonstrate the results of their scientific computing can request expert assistance and collaboration from CISL. This service is available to researchers who want help using specialized applications on data analysis and visualization resources that CISL manages.
CISL visualization staff have particular expertise in CISL-developed software such as VAPOR and NCL but are open to assisting with other applications. They have helped science teams produce numerous visualizations for conferences, publications, and scientific journals as well as science and broadcast news programs.
See these sites for some examples:
To ask for assistance, please use this request form. Indicate clearly that the request is for "Advanced Visualization Support" and describe how the proposed visualization project meets the following criteria:
Requests for advanced visualization support are evaluated based on those criteria to ensure the most productive use of the limited available staff time. To further help us evaluate your request, please briefly address the following questions when submitting the request form:
The CISL visualization staff will follow up with requesters directly if additional details are needed.
CISL visualization experts can help as described above with using applications such as NCL and VAPOR.
See the Casper documentation to learn how to submit the necessary jobs and start the applications on that data analysis and visualization cluster.