CUMULVS viewers for the immersadesk

Torsten Wilde, James A. Kohl, Raymond E. Flanery

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Abstract

This paper will discuss the development of CUMULVS “viewers” for virtual reality visualization via ImmersaDesk/Cave systems. The CUMULVS (Collaborative, User Migration, User Library for Visualization and Steering) system, developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is a base platform for interacting with high-performance parallel scientific simulation programs on-the-fly. It provides run-time visualization of data while they are being computed, as well as coordinated computational steering and application-directed checkpointing and fault recovery mechanisms. CUMULVS primarily consists of two distinct but cooperative libraries - an application library and a viewer library. The application library allows instrumentation of scientific simulations to describe distributed data fields, and the viewer library interacts with this application side to dynamically attach and then extract and assemble sequences of data snapshots for use in front-end visualization tools. A development strategy for integrating CUMULVS with the virtual reality visualization libraries and environments will be presented, including discussion of the various data transformations and the visualization pipeline necessary for converting raw CUMULVS data into fully rendered 3-dimensional graphical entities.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputational Science – ICCS 2001 - International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsVassil N. Alexandrov, Jack J. Dongarra, Benjoe A. Juliano, Rene S. Renner, C.J. Kenneth Tan
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages871-880
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)3540422331, 9783540422334
DOIs
StatePublished - 2001
EventInternational Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2001 - San Francisco, United States
Duration: May 28 2001May 30 2001

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume2074
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2001
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco
Period05/28/0105/30/01

Keywords

  • CUMULVS
  • ImmersaDesk
  • SGI performer
  • Scientific visualization
  • VTK

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