Visualization specialist Benjamín Hernández in the Advanced Data and Workflow Group is leading OLCF’s involvement with the Analytic Rendering Exploratory Group within the Khronos Group. Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) recently joined this effort aimed at creating a standardized API for a visualization method called ray tracing, which models the way light behaves to create highly physically accurate images from datasets. The move would allow new visualization software programs and custom visualization codes to more easily run on any computing device—even those with drastically different architecture.

The Khronos Group has issued a call for participation in the newly formed Analytic Rendering Exploratory Group. The group has been formed to discuss the standardization of an Analytic Rendering API for data visualization. All interested parties are invited to participate, with no cost or IP obligations, to share perspectives, requirements and use cases to help determine whether there is an industry need for such an API and to help set the direction for any standardization activities. Learn more about what Analytic Rendering is why a new analytic rendering API is needed and what the goals of such a group might look like. If your company, or a company you know is interested in learning more and joining the Exploratory Group, you are invited to contact us.