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System Design for On-line Distributed Computational Visualization and Steering...

by Chase Q Wu, Mengxia Zhu, Nageswara S Rao
Publication Type
Conference Paper
Publication Date
Page Numbers
1121 to 1130
Volume
3942
Conference Name
International Conference on E-learning and Games
Conference Location
Hangzhou, China
Conference Sponsor
EUROGRAPHICS
Conference Date
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We propose a distributed computing framework for network-optimized
visualization and steering of real-time scientific simulations and computations executed on a remote host, such as workstation, cluster or supercomputer. Unlike the conventional "batch" simulations, this system enables: (i) monitoring of an ongoing remote computation using visualization tools, and (ii) on-line specification of simulation parameters to interactively steer remote computations. Using performance models for transport channels and visualization modules, we develop a dynamic programming method to optimize the realization of the visualization pipeline over a wide-area network to maximize the frame rate. We present experimental
results to illustrate the effectiveness of this system.