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Information Technology

Visualization research

News and Updates

Two men stand in front of an audience, demonstrating WIPP, which is projected via computer onto several large screens in a library.

A Map App to Track Stem Cells

Researchers who work with stem cells have ambitious goals. Some want to cure cancer or treat heart disease. Others want to grow the tissues and organs that

Projects and Programs

A double-helix rheometer measuring the viscosity of mortar.

High Performance Computing

Our High Performance Computing (HPC) program enables work on challenging problems that are beyond the capacity and capability of desktop computing resources
Steven Satterfield in the NIST CAVE

Visualization

ITL researchers realize that visualization of scientific data can provide an understanding of the phenomenon or data being studied. Visualization can be
A network of 629 papers co-authored by chemist A.W. Castleman.

Impact Metrics

The NIST Research Library documents the impact of NIST’s scientific research with a comprehensive suite of measurement tools and analyses. These include

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