Research and development of the visualization grid in ITBL project

Takeshima, Yuriko; Suzuki, Yoshio*; Matsumoto, Nobuko*; Sai, Kazunori*; Nakajima, Norihiro  

The Information-Technology-Based Laboratory (ITBL) project aims to construct a virtual research environment which shares intellectual resources such as the super computers by the grid computing, softwares and data in Japan and supports joint researches at a distance. In the project, two visualization systems: the PATRAS/ITBL and the AVS/ITBL have been developed. The feature of the PATRAS/ITBL is the collaborative, real-time visualization of data resulting from an execution of numerical simulations. The AVS/ITBL visualization system enables remote postprocessing visualization of any data stored on any supercomputer located in the ITBL network. The global structure and technologies of these systems are presented.