VisPortal: Deploying grid-enabled visualization tools through a web-portal interface

The LBNL/NERSC Visportal eort explores ways to deliver advanced Remote/Distributed Visualization (RDV) capabilities through a Grid-enabled web-portal interface. The eort focuses on latency tolerant dis- tributed visualization algorithms, GUI designs that are more appropriate for the capabilities of web inter- faces, 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 plat- form for delivering grid-based visualization services to collaboratory users.