Focused Effort Title: Scivis for Collaborative Scientific Visualization
Thematic Area(s): HPC Training and DoD User Productivity

Project Description:
Scivis has been used succesfully in the Binary Black Hole Grand Challenge,
which is a collaboration of over 10 research institutions. Scivis was 
originally designed to work well with this group of researchers. This
proposal seeks to further extend Scivis to other areas of computational 
research that could be used by the CEWES community. One of the most basic
features that will be necessary to make Scivis usable by the rest of the
community will be to add fundamental support for finite element CFD
applications.

Scivis has become very usefull because it includes many tools to visualize
1-3 dimensional data. Scivis can also animate windows and filter windows, 
which allows users direct, hands-on, manipulation of their data. Scivis has
also been used sucessfully in collaborative envirnoments, allowing researchers
to interact with one-another from distant places. 

Our initial work will be to provide training sessions and on-line tutorials
for the CEWES community. Once researchers become familar with Scivis, we will
develope a browser version of Scivis. Currently Scivis is a Java application,
but some users are interested in browser versions to make interaction with
Scivis easier. We will develope several new visualization components inside
of scivis to further enhance this effort.

Benefits:
Scivis is one of the only true scientific visualization programs which is
extendable, platform independent and collaborative. Once Java3D is publically
available, Scivis will use hardware rendering, thus making its speed 
competitive to other commecial visualization software.

Required Resources:  $?????
        0.2 Research Scientist
				1.0 Graduate Student

Deliverables:
* Training in the operation and maintance of Scivis will be provided at
  Syracuse University
* On-line tutorials will be created.
* A scivis mailing list will be created.
* A browser version of Scivis will be created.
* A TANGO version of Scivis will be created.
* A full editor for filters will be created. This will allow researchers to
  create filters on line, and then have this instantly become part of their
  system. Currently, Scivis must be restarted when a new filter is to be
  used. We also do not have an editor to edit filters, so users must use
  an editor outside of scivis.
* A full Scripting language for Scivis will be created. This will allow users
  to be able to demo their visualizations with scivis. Currently users must
  fully interact with scivis. The scripting language will also provide users
  with a method to change all characteristics of a visualization window from
  inside their simulation servers.

Customer Commitment/Involvement:
We believe that through CEWES interaction we can further expand the Scivis
user domain. Through this type of interaction, new visualization tools can
be developed in order to meet the customers satisfaction. Tutorials can help
introduce many users to interactive visualization, which is superior to 
waiting for simulations to finish before looking at data.