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*STTR Project: Chromium RenderServer: Remote Rendering and Visualization Servers
Using Distributed Memory Parallel Clusters—Tungsten Graphics,
Mr. Brian Paul, Principal Investigator, brialpaul@tungtengraphics.com
Mr. Jens Owen, Business Official, jens@tungstengraphics.com
DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-04ER86198
Amount: $750,000
Research Institution
While computational capacity at DOE’s flagship computer
centers continues to increase, there is a corresponding increase in need for
interactive data analysis. Although
researchers are capable of generating unprecedented amounts of data, they also
need access to facilities and software that allow them to gain insight into the
scientific phenomena hidden in their simulation or experimental data. However, most such researchers only have
network-based access to the centrally located computer centers, yet the amount
of data to be analyzed is so large as to preclude transfer over the network to
a local computer system. This project
will define and implement a platform-neutral software infrastructure that
provides the ability to perform remote scientific visualization on high
performance, interactive, parallel platforms, and transmit the resulting
imagery to a remote user or to a remote team of geographically distributed
users. Phase
I developed a prototype architecture that allows a remote user to view results
generated by a remotely-located graphics or visualization application running
on a shared- or distributed-memory computer system. Phase II will develop a robust, full-featured
Chromium Renderserver that delivers high-resolution visualization imagery to
one or more remote users from distributed- or shared-memory parallel computer
systems.
Commercial Applications And Other Benefits as described by the awardee: The remote delivery of visualization results from scalable rendering platforms would meet a critical need that spans all computational science projects that generate data at centrally located facilities, but need to perform visual data analysis from remote locations. Commercialization opportunitis include the provision of long term consulting, development, porting and maintenance agreements.