July 2003

DOE awards SBIR Phase I to Kitware for Grid visualization

Kitware, Inc. has won a Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project from the DOE to develop a scalable, grid enabled, collaborative visualization environment to support the emerging distributed computing network. Grid computing is viewed by many technologists as a promising software technology to leverage distributed resources across the internet, allowing organizations to utilize distant resources and access remote data. Kitware will integrate selected software systems into the Grid framework, and produce three prototype applications demonstrating isocontouring, large data rendering, and deformable registration.

Kitware, Inc. is a small, privately held company offering consulting, products, and services in the areas of 3D graphics, visualization, image processing, and volume rendering. Kitware develops advanced software tools such as the widely used Visualization Toolkit (VTK) and Insight Segmentation and Registration toolkit (ITK) systems. Kitware is also developing other open source and proprietary software including CMake, a cross-platform build environment, and VolView, an advanced volume rendering and image analysis package. Kitware is located in the Tech Valley region of New York State.