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Real-time visualization of large data sets on NLR's NEC SX-4

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High-Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN-Europe 1998)

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Visualization is an integral part of the simulation process. With the increase of computing power for simulation, visualization has lagged behind. This paper will present a real-time visualization system, RVSLIB, which is developed to supply simulation engineers with a visualization tool which performs at the same rate as their simulation packages. RVSLIB is developed and optimized on the NEC SX-4, and applies the client-server model. The compute server, a NEC SX-4 parallel vector computer, serves also as a visualization server: both mapping and rendering of the image is performed on the NEC SX-4. In this way, users not connected through a high-speed network to the supercomputer can use the NEC SX-4 as both compute and visualization server. The system is illustrated for a real-life application within the HPCN project NICE.

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  1. National Aerospace Laboratory NLR, P.O. Box 90502, 1006 BM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Harmen van der Ven & Bert Schultheiss

  2. Computer System Research Laboratory, NEC Corporation, 1-1, Miyazaki, 4-Chome, Miyamae-ku, 216, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

    Shun Doi, Kouta Sugihara & Toshifumi Takei

  3. NEC Informatec Systems, Ltd., Kanagawa Science Park, 213, Takatsu-ku kawasaki, Japan

    Hideki Matsumoto

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  1. Harmen van der Ven
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van der Ven, H., Schultheiss, B., Doi, S., Matsumoto, H., Sugihara, K., Takei, T. (1998). Real-time visualization of large data sets on NLR's NEC SX-4. In: Sloot, P., Bubak, M., Hertzberger, B. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1401. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0037166

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