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\title {An Interactive Visualization Environment
for Financial\\ 
Modeling on Parallel Computing Systems}

\abstract{Current programming environments on parallel computers,
especially visualization environments, 
are less developed and less portable than those on 
sequential work-stations. By using a highly portable 
commercial visualization system, Application Visualization 
System(AVS), a portable, work-station, interactive visualization
environment was created to visualize option price modeling
on a massively parallel computer, the DECmpp-12000. The 
parallel option pricing models are 
integrated into a graphic user interface that 
provides model users and researchers with a 
user-friendly visualization tool for model 
verification and optimization. The environment has been
ported to Connection Machine-2 and Connection Machine-5. This paper 
addresses design and implementation issues of developing 
this environment. The feasibility of using AVS 
to create a high performance distributed computing 
environment with a comprehensive data visualization environment 
is also discussed.}

\author{\underbar{Gang Cheng$^{1,2}$}\\
Kim Mills$^{1}$\\
Geoffrey Fox$^{1,2,3}$\\\\
$^1$Northeast Parallel Architectures Center\\ 
$^2$School of Computer and Information Science\\
$^3$Department of Physics\\
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244\\}

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