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Foil 46 VRML and HPF Futures

From NII(Web) Services Overview CPS616 Basic Information Track for Computational Science -- Winter-Spring Semester 96. by Geoffrey Fox * See also color IMAGE
VRML -- Virtual Reality Model Language -- is an object oriented database built as a subset of the SGI Inventor System
VRML can be considered as another script optimized for graphics but not many interesting processing (compute) capabilities are in current standard
VRML can be considered as an example of a universal data structure allowing exchange of 3D objects over the Web.
  • These objects could either be tanks in a videogame or parts of an aircraft used in large scale simulation
Thus useful to consider data parallel VRML and building CC++ or HPF(Fortran90) modules to support VRML
HPCC community should join with the Web to ensure that standards such as VRML can be implemented efficiently either in parallel (maybe a niche) but also in a distributed network (similar issues where HPCC can contribute and clearly very important)
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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