Visualization Project and Global Distributed Design System

• Resource Allocation. The ability to exploit under used cycles at remote facilities for analysis computations and view results locally can significantly impact cycle time in design.
• Visualizer can help link remote sites of some industrial/government organizations e.g. different Boeing installations or institutions working on interrelated projects. Different branches of Armed Services interacting on some objective.
• Retrieval of distributed HPC results and selective interactive intelligent screening of results. e.g. User views flow field at coarse hierarchic level, gets direction to regions that were adaptively refined, comments on local error indicator levels, etc., selectively views subregions and extracts high resolution data hierarchically, etc.
• Technical aspects of hierarchic data structures, compression, visualizer, parallel partitioning, etc.

• Internet traffic Blockage and Bandwidth Limitations... This is a problem that will (hopefully) improve as system hardware or interest policies evolve. However, even with this difficulty, our approach will permit exploitation at each stage of development.
• Software protocols and transferability (especially for parallel systems). Propose to use GUI in phase I of research but this is a long-term issue. Some tools along the lines of VRML could be used to allow users to "walk through solutions". Our broker could be used to improve or simplify the "walk through" or act as a "tour guide".
• Unstructured grid partitioning is a topic of ongoing research. The be reconfigured in a hierarchical manner.
• Security: Users need to shield proprietary and secret information.