Abstract

VisIVO. New integrated services

Ugo Becciani (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania)

A. Costa - INAF Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, G. Caniglia - Cometa Consortium, M. Comparato - University of Catania, C. Gheller - CINECA, A. Grillo - Cometa Consortium, M. Krokos - University of Portsmouth, R. Munzone - Cometa Consortium, F. Vitello - Cometa Consorium

We present new integrated services offered by VisIVO, a framework for exploration of large-scale astrophysical datasets. VisIVO was established in 2005 and its core functionality developed within the VO-TECH project. The framework supports high-performance, multidimensional visualization and complies with the standards of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance, making it interoperable with VO data repositories. We show new features of the VisIVO Desktop and the recently developed VisIVO Server. The latter is a command line application for intuitive visual discovery with 3D views being created from data tables, and it can be installed easily on any web server with a database repository. Its defining characteristic is support for very large data sizes with no fixed limit on dimensions. We also demonstrate a preliminary version of the upcoming VisIVO Server Website that will allow users to upload their own datasets for analysis and exploration. More details can be found on the VisIVO website at http://visivo.oact.inaf.it.

Mode of presentation: focus