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Short task description
Graphic data processing requires access to
highly efficient visualization capabilities directly on the user terminal.
Visualization tools should be able to gather data coming from HPC
(High Performance Computing) computations run on a remote system and
then to display them interactively on the local user screen. The
visualization process may be run on a remote computer (in that case
processed images are transmitted) or alternatively - raw data may be
sent to the user to be processed locally.
OpenGL Vizserver software offered by SGI
supports remote visualization and enables the users to browse and cooperate
interactively with huge data sets from their local stations. OpenGL
Vizserver does not run rendering itself but controls the visualization on
the host machine and the compressed image data transmission to the user.
It is intended to install the OpenGL Vizserver system in two computational
centers: in Poznan and in Kraków. Among the tools that may be used for
visualization on the host machine within the confines of the project,
the following systems will be run and analyzed:
AVS from Advanced Visual
Systems, Inc., Open Data
Explorer from IBM and
Vis5D
from the University of Wisconsin. Typical applications remaining in the
focus of attention cover scientific visualization, medical image data
processing and transmission, 3D objects reconstruction and virtual worlds
creation.
To accelerate both computations and
visualization a mechanism of distribution and parallelisation of the tasks
run on clusters should be prepared. It is a natural approach to decompose
tasks into subtasks sent to different computers or systems, performing
remote computations and gathering the results on the graphic server. This
operating mode may be realized using the
VisBench
library from NCSA and
CUMULVS
library from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. |
