DISplay: a system for visual-interaction in distributed simulations

Author

Mascarenhas, Edward ; Rego, Vernon ; Sang, Janche

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

3-6 Dec 1995

Firstpage

698

Lastpage

705

Abstract

We propose an application-independent visual interaction library (VIL) well suited to distributed simulation. Advantages of this system include ease of use, flexibility, code reuse, and modularity. Our design ideas are manifest, in the DISplay system, a graphical user-interaction and display library which binds to any parallel software system. We provide examples of its interactive use in the the dynamic display of results from sequential queueing simulations, and distributed particle-physics simulations. These examples illustrate synchronization of multiple remote display requests and potential for enhanced parallel simulation. Also presented are provisions for customized user-interaction dialogs-for application-related input, and bi-directional interaction-between user and application

Keywords

data visualisation; digital simulation; graphical user interfaces; interactive systems; parallel programming; software reusability; DISplay; application-independent visual interaction library; bidirectional interaction; code reuse; customized user-interaction dialogs; distributed particle-physics simulations; distributed simulations; ease of use; flexibility; graphical user-interaction; modularity; multiple remote display requests; parallel software system; sequential queueing simulations; synchronization; visual-interaction system; Animation; Application software; Computational modeling; Computer displays; Computer simulation; Data visualization; Inspection; Proposals; Software libraries; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Simulation Conference Proceedings, 1995. Winter

Conference_Location

Arlington, VA

Print_ISBN

0-78033018-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSC.1995.478846

Filename

478846