VisPortal: Deploying Grid-enabled Visualization Tools through a Web-portal Interface

The LBNL/NERSC Visportal effort explores ways to deliver advanced Remote/Distributed Visualization(RDV) capabilities through a Grid-enabled web-portal interface. The effort focuses on latency tolerant distributed visualization algorithms, GUI designs that are more appropriate for the capabilities of web interfaces, and refactoring parallel-distributed applications to work in a N-tiered component deployment strategy. Most importantly, our aim is to leverage commercially supported technology as much as possible in order to create a deployable, supportable, and hence viable platform for delivering grid-based visualization services to collaboratory users