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Information Technology

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Projects and Programs

A double-helix rheometer measuring the viscosity of mortar.

High Performance Computing

Ongoing
Current HPC technology broadly consists of: Leadership systems, such as the Department of Energy INCITE systems. Production Systems, such as clusters We work on both types of systems. For example, our work on the Rheology or Flow Properties of Concrete (see pages 15-16 in the latest
A network of 629 papers co-authored by chemist A.W. Castleman.

Impact Metrics

Ongoing
In response to h-index requests from NIST management and staff, Library staff provide comprehensive publication analysis studies and reports that ensure the h-index is put in proper context as one of several ways to assess the impact of an individual or group. The Library can also compile non

Human-Centered Cybersecurity

Ongoing
Championing the Human in Cybersecurity The Human-Centered Cybersecurity program within the NIST Visualization and Usability Group provides research evidence and guidance to policymakers, system engineers, organizational decision makers, and cybersecurity professionals so that they can make better

AI User Trust

Ongoing
The Visualization and Usability Group’s AI User Trust project provided foundational work for our new AI User Trust Measurement research, and continues to inform our larger Human-Centered AI program. Please read more about our current work on those pages. The information that follows is maintained

Publications

Software

Dual rheometer simulation visualization in the NIST CAVE

HEV: High End Visualization

We have developed a virtual measurement and analysis laboratory in a 3D immersive virtual environment using a CAVE hardware configuration and a software

Video Analytic Quality Measurement Tools

This Tool set has been created to facilitate video quality metric research and foster future R&D. Development was sponsored as part of video quality research by

OpenSceneGraph Multi-card Scaling Test

We have observed a problem with OpenSceneGraph (OSG) in which parallel, multi-threaded, applications do not scale properly to multiple graphics cards. The