| Abstract: | We have developed a new strategy and espouse a novel paradigm for large-scale computing and real-time interactive visualization.
This philosophy calls for intense interactive sessions for a couple of hours at a time at the expense of storing data on many
disk drives during regular or heroic runs on massively parallel systems. We have already carried out successfully real-time
volume-rendering visualization by employing hundreds of processors for a grid with over 25 million unknowns. Both Cartesian
and spherical 3D mantle convection are visualized. The volume-rendered images are viewed on a large display device, with many
panels holding around 13 million pixels. We will employ a software strategy involving an hierarchical rendering service, which
will have as software an Ajax interface for interactive visualization of large data sets on many different platforms from
desktop PC’s to hand-held devices, such as the OQO and the Nokia N-800. An option for stereo viewing is also implemented.
We have installed a user interface as web application, using Java and Ajax framework in order to achieve over the Internet
reasonable accessibility to our ongoing runs. Our goal is to expand the array of interactive devices, which will make it feasible
to carry out ubiquitous visualization and monitoring of large-scale simulations or onsite events and to allow for collaborations
across oceans. |
