An Architecture for Visualization and User Interaction in Parallel Environments.

Abstract

An application-independent visualization interaction system is proposed with potential for application-binding at any stage of the modeling process. Advantages of this approach 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 can be used with any parallel software. We outline its use in the dynamic display of results from computations in queueing simulations, exemplifying synchronization of multiple remote display requests, and the potential for enhanced parallel simulations. We also describe how it may be used to define customized user interaction dialogs for input from an application, and bi-directional interaction between a user and an application.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA308681

Entities

People

  • Edward Mascarenhas
  • Vernon Rego

Organizations

  • Purdue University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computations
  • Directional
  • Display Systems
  • Environment
  • Resilience
  • Simulations
  • Visualizations

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Database Systems and Applications