Subject: FW: Form - Project Spreadsheet: ASC-CY4-SCI--4 Resent-Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 22:20:58 -0400 Resent-From: Geoffrey Fox Resent-To: p_gcf@boss.npac.syr.edu Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 08:46:19 -0400 From: "Asbury, William L" To: "'Geoffrey Fox'" , "'Ken Flurchick'" , "'Tom Haupt'" All, Here is a SciVis ASC PET proposal that the PET Management would like comments on relative to the Gateway project and planning. bill Bill Asbury Nichols Research, Systems Integration Ph: (937) 255-0679 x372 FAX: (937) 255-4585 > ---------- > From: Hoffman, Dana E > Sent: Friday, April 23, 1999 8:33 AM > To: Asbury, William L > Subject: FW: Form - Project Spreadsheet: ASC-CY4-SCI--4 > > Bill, as per discussions with Bill Z. and I, please put this through the > review process. > > Thanks, > Dana > > ---------- > From: web@www.arl.hpc.mil [SMTP:web@www.arl.hpc.mil] > Sent: Friday, April 02, 1999 6:55 PM > To: Hoffman, Dana E; grabert@raven.arl.mil; moses@raven.arl.mil > Subject: Form - Project Spreadsheet: ASC-CY4-SCI--4 > > The following data was submitted from > http://www.arl.hpc.mil/PET/project/submit.html > Institution Name: NCSA > Project Site: ASC > Project Contract Year: CY4 > Project CTA Area: SCI > Project Thrust Area: > Project Sequence Number: 4 > Project Title: OBJECT WEB VISUALIZATION > Last Name: Baker > First Name: Polly > Middle Initial: > Email Address: baker@ncsa.uiuc.edu > Telephone: (217) 244-1997 > Fax Number: (217) 244-2909 > CTA or PEI: SCI > Project Description: This initiative will develop strategies > for accomplishing > visualization within a component- based system. Visualization services, > constructed as a Web-accessible set of distributed objects, can supply > visualization capabilities for custom visualization tools, or to > application- specific workbenches and problem-solving environments. As > back-end services installed at an MSRC, visualization objects can be built > to utilize large-memory machines and high- performance graphics hardware. > Multi-platform client applications, either as stand-alone visualization > tools or embedded within a problem-solving environment, request service > from these objects, providing a way for remote users to make use of > centralized high-performance resources. Visualization objects can also > provide services for virtual environments such as the ImmersaDesk, > integrating these platforms into a Post-Web applications environment. > Visualization back-end services can be enhanced and upgraded over time > with minimal disruption to front-end client applications or the user. > Thus this architecture is intended to provide a forward-looking framework > that can accommodate new or improved visualization techniques or > implementation algorithms, speeding technology transfer to the user > community. > This work will be done in cooperation with Dr. Geoffrey Fox, to develop > visualization service capabilities for commodity-based Web computing > environments such as the WebFlow/Gateway architecture. We will also work > closely with the CTA's as they advance their development of > Problem-solving Environments. Finally, we are communicating with Jerry > Clarke, team lead for ARL's DICE effort, to provide mutual support and > leverage and to insure that our components can work together in a > plug-and-play fashion. We are also surveying visualization personnel in > the national vis community to determine if and where similar efforts > exist. > This project leverages the earlier work done at NCSA, including the Radio > Astronomy VRML generator, the Collaborative Data Analysis Toolsuite (CDAT) > prototype, our work with computational monitoring, our work with > RenderMan, and the experiments with server- push. > This is a multi-year effort with several sub-projects, listed below and > described briefly in a subsequent section. > 1. Abstracting Data Access: Integrating DICE and CUMULVS Data Access > Methods > 2. Visualization Back-End Services for the CCM Problem-Solving > Environment > 3. Specifiying XML Document Definitions for Object Web Visualization > 4. Providing High-End Rendering within an Object Web > 5. Abstracting Data Access: Integrating with Globus Access to Seconardy > Storage\ (GASS) > 6. SGI On-Board IR Experiment > 7. Incorporating Automated Feature Detection > 8. It's All the Web: Integrating the ImmersaDesk with the Object Web > 9. Image-Space Approaches to Large Numbers of Points > 10. Adding Support for Visualizing AMR Data > > Project Objectives: Objectives of this project are to: > * enable remote users to utilize the MSRC large-memory and > high-performance gra\phics machines for visualization > * maximize reuse of visualization code, since server-side capabilities > can be r\eused in many different applications > * enable visualization on the Web and within Problem-Solving > Environments > * facilitate easy construction of immersive visualization applications > * support visualization of very large data sets > > Deliverables: This initiative will provide the > capability to do visualization over the Web, either through stand-alone > visualization tools or through an application-specific Problem-Solving > Environment. > Customers/End Users: Intially, an early user group and > emerging problem-solving environments. Potentially, all MSRC users. > Benefit to Warfighter: This initiative will provide > visualization services within a Web-based environment, of potential > benefit to all MSRC researchers and the warfighter. > Project Dependencies and Scope: Project depends on collaboration with > on-site CTA leads, especially those involved in designing and building > PSE's. Project will be enhanced by collaboration with the DICE ARL. > Project will leverage related work within the NSF Alliance, especially > NCSA's Visualization and Virtual Environments team and the workbench > efforts. Risk Element: Overall, there is a moderate > risk involved. Some aspects of this are very low risk. Some parts are > riskier, such as use of CORBA or of an on-board InfiniteReality engine. > Potential return justifies taking the time to explore these options. > Year X Funding: > Year X+1 Funding: > Year X+2 Funding: > >