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Distributed interactive graphics applications in computational fluid dynamics

Conference ·
OSTI ID:6727489
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  1. Sterling Federal Systems, Moffett Field, CA (United States) NASA. Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA (United States)
Implementation of two interactive, distributed graphics programs used in Computational Fluid Dynamics is discussed. Both programs run on a Cray 2 supercomputer and use a Silicon Graphics Iris workstation as the graphics front-end machine. The hardware and supporting software is from the Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation project. Using this configuration, the supercomputer does all of the numerically intensive work and the workstation allows the user to perform real-time interactive transformations on the displayed data. The first program was written originally as a distributed program which computes particle traces for fluid flow solutions existing on the supercomputer. The second is an older post-processing and plotting program which was modified to run in a distributed mode. Both programs have realized a large increase in capability as a distributed process. Some graphical results are presented.
Research Organization:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Moffett Field, CA (United States). Ames Research Center
OSTI ID:
6727489
Report Number(s):
CONF-8807152--
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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