“A Distributed Visualization Demonstration Using Workstations, A Heterogeneous Supercomputer Environment, and High-Speed Network Protocols” by Johnston
Conference:
Type(s):
Title:
- A Distributed Visualization Demonstration Using Workstations, A Heterogeneous Supercomputer Environment, and High-Speed Network Protocols
Program Title:
- Showcase
Presenter(s):
Collaborator(s):
- Wendy Huntoon
- Van L Jacobson
- Stewart C. Loken
- Jamshid Mahdavi
- Matt Mathis
- David W. Robertson
- Brian L. Tierney
- Joel Welling
Project Affiliation:
- Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC)
Description:
This demonstration represents one model of how scientists, researchers, and physicians con benefit from the combination of local, inexpensive workstations, high-speed networking, and remote supercomputing facilities. It consists of three parts: the application itself, the network infrastructure, and the workstation visualization and control.
The application utilizes PSC’s distributed heterogeneous supercomputing environment to generate o surface tessellation from a 30 scalar field using the dividing cubes algorithm and to render on image. The image is sent over the network to a Showcase workstation to display the result. A graphical interface on the workstation allows interactive exploration of the 3D data, sending new parameters to the heterogeneous supercomputing environment for reprocessing and re-rendering as the exploration proceeds.
