NPAC Technical Report SCCS-573
An Interactive Remote Visualization Environment for an Electromagnetic Scattering Simultation on a High Performance Computing System
Gang Cheng, Y Lu, Geoffrey Fox, Kim Mills, Tomasz Haupt
Submitted January 1 1994
Abstract
Electromagnetic scattering(EMS) simulation is an important
computationally intensive application within the field of electromagnetics.
Advances in high performance computing and communication (HPCC) and data
visualization environment(DVE) provide new opportunities to visualize
real-time simulation problems such as EMS which require significant
computational resources. In this work, an integrated interactive
visualization environment was created for an EMS simulation, coupling
a graphical user interface(GUI) for runtime simulation parameters input
and 3D rendering output on a graphical workstation, with computational
modules running on a parallel supercomputer and two workstations.
Application Visualization System(AVS) was used as integrating software
to facilitate both networking and scientific data visualization.
Using the EMS simulation as a case study in this paper, we explore the
AVS data flow methodology to naturally integrate data visualization,
parallel systems and heterogeneous computing. Major issues in integrating
this remote visualization system are discussed, including task decomposition,
system integration, concurrent control, and a high level DVE-based
distributed programming model.