Distributed scientific video movie making

Author

Johnston, W.E. ; Hall, D.E. ; Huang, J. ; Rible, M. ; Robertson, D.

Author_Institution

Lawrence Berkeley Lab., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA

fYear

1988

fDate

14-18 Nov 1988

Firstpage

156

Lastpage

162

Abstract

A description is given of a versatile, low-cost, video movie-making system for generating and displaying scientific graphics from remote supercomputers. The system makes video movies by single-frame animation from the output of time-dependent, numerical simulations typically done on supercomputers. It uses extensive data compression to permit its use over wide area, as well as local area networks. The system demonstrates an easily used, elementary visualization capability for time-dependent data in a heterogeneous, distributed computing environment

Keywords

computer graphic equipment; computer graphics; distributed processing; local area networks; video equipment; data compression; distributed computing environment; distributed scientific video movie making; heterogeneous; local area networks; numerical simulations; remote supercomputers; scientific graphics; single-frame animation; time-dependent data; Animation; Data compression; Data visualization; Distributed computing; Graphics; Local area networks; Motion pictures; Numerical simulation; Supercomputers; Video compression;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Supercomputing '88. [Vol.1]., Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-8186-0882-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SUPERC.1988.44649

Filename

44649