Distributed Simulation Analysis Among Scientists in Germany, US and Japan
The High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart and Sandia National
Laboratories have been researching, prototyping, and applying a distributed
parallel supercomputing and collaborative virtual-reality computation
steering environment since 1996.
The output of a metacomputing simulation is visualized by means of a
distributed virtual collaborative environment. People and machines have the
potential to interact via a virtual reality-based, online, on-demand
service anywhere in the world. The project recognizes the unique
combination of high-end resources and high-speed connectivity to networks
spanning multiple continents, including Computer Services for Academic
Research Centre (Manchester, UK), the Centre of Virtual Environments at
University of Salford (UK), Tsukuba Advanced Computing Center (Japan) and
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (USA).
The applications emphasize some of the largest supercomputers in the world
being networked to support International Grand Challenge applications, and
advanced visualization and collaboration tools being utilized to develop
the workplace of the 21st Century.
