Seeing the Unseeable

The SciDAC Visualization and Analytics Center for Enabling Technologies (VACET) is a highly productive effort combining the forces of leading visualization researchers from five different institutions to solve some of the most challenging data understanding problems in modern science. The VACET technology portfolio is diverse, spanning all typical visual data analysis use models and effectively balancing forward-looking research with focused software architecture and engineering resulting in a production-quality software infrastructure. One of the key elements in VACET's success is a rich set of projects that are collaborations with science stakeholders: these efforts focus on identifying and overcoming obstacles to scientific knowledge discovery in modern, large, and complex scientific datasets.