Scientific Collaboration with Parallel Interactive 3D Visualizations of Earth Science Datasets
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URL: www.siovizcenter.ucsd.edu/optiputer/igrid2005.html Contact: Atul Nayak, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP), Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California San Diego (UCSD), USA, anayak @ ucsd.edu Collaborators: IGPP, SIO, UCSD, USA: Atul Nayak, Debi Kilb, Graham Kent, John Orcutt Concurrent Systems Architecture Group, UCSD, USA: Nut Taesombut, Xinran (Ryan) Wu, Eric Weigle, Andrew A. Chien Jacob School of Engineering, UCSD, USA: Sean O’Connell, Max Okumoto, David Hutches Calit2, UCSD, USA: Aaron Chin Calit2, University of California, Irvine, USA: Stephen Jenks The ability to transfer multi-gigabyte objects among remote collaborating sites is an enabling technology for the Earth sciences. For this demonstration, the OptIPuter’s Distributed Virtual Computer (DVC) middleware is used to establish a collaborative environment with visualization endpoints at UCSD and UC-Irvine. OptIPuter’s Composite Endpoint Protocol (CEP) and Group Transport Protocol (GTP), two cluster-to-cluster transport protocols, are used to efficiently send multi-gigabyte 3D scene files from the various storage sites for interactive visualization on tiled displays at the visualization sites. |
 
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