Overview of the I-way : wide area visual supercomputing.
This paper discusses the I-WAY project and provides an overview of the papers in this issue of IJSA. The I-WAY is an experimental environment for building distributed virtual reality applications and for exploring issues of distributed wide area resource management and scheduling. The goal of the I-WAY project is to enable researchers use multiple internetworked supercomputers and advanced visualization systems to conduct very large-scale computations. By connecting a dozen ATM testbeds, seventeen supercomputer centers, five virtual reality research sites, and over sixty applications groups, the I-WAY project has created an extremely diverse wide area environment for exploring advanced applications. This environment has provided a glimpse of the future for advanced scientific and engineering computing. 1 A Model for Distributed Collaborative Computing The I-WAY, or Information Wide Area Year, was a year-long effort to link existing national testbeds based on ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) to interconnect supercomputer centers, virtual reality (VR) research locations, and applications development sites. The I-WAY was successfully demonstrated at Supercomputing '95 and included over sixty distributed supercomputing applications that used a variety of supercomputing resources and VR display.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- ER
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC02-06CH11357
- OSTI ID:
- 938084
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/MCS-P579-0396; TRN: US200906%%394
- Journal Information:
- Int. J. Supercomput. Appl., Vol. 10, Issue 2-3 ; 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- ENGLISH
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