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Building on four successful years hosting a national Visualize This! Challenge, the Compute Canada Federation’s Visualization Working Group is joining forces with IEEE to co-host the 2021 IEEE SciVis Contest, an international competition to create novel approaches and state-of-the-art visualizations that help domain scientists better understand challenging datasets. 

The 2021 contest details were announced at the IEEE Vis 2020 Conference last week by lead organizer and WestGrid Visualization and Training Coordinator Alex Razoumov. Click here to view his poster presentation. 

Theme

Convection processes in the Earth’s mantle. 

Tasks

Visit the contest website’s Tasks section to learn how you can bring this year’s dataset to life. 

Data

The data for this year’s contest is courtesy of the Pysklywec Lab (Russell Pysklywec and Hosein Shahnas) at the University of Toronto. The simulations were conducted using the Niagara cluster at the University of Toronto, one of five national host sites within Canada’s national ARC platform. 

Full Contest Details

Visit the contest website for full dataset details, contest tasks, and submission instructions. This contest is open to everyone (no academic affiliation is necessary). 

Questions?

All contest communications will be hosted via a Google group. To post and read messages, please email Alex Razoumov to be added to the group.