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Terascale Remote and Collaborative Visualization TeraGrid ’08 June 9, 2008 Las Vegas, Nevada. UC/ANL Visualization Resource. 4TB of Disk for Home Directories. 16TB of Disk for Parallel-IO - Temporary Storage. 2 Visualization Login Nodes. Dual Intel Xeon IA-32 Processors 4GB Memory each
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Terascale Remote and Collaborative VisualizationTeraGrid ’08June 9, 2008Las Vegas, Nevada
UC/ANL Visualization Resource 4TB of Disk for Home Directories 16TB of Disk for Parallel-IO - Temporary Storage 2 Visualization Login Nodes Dual Intel Xeon IA-32 Processors 4GB Memory each GeFORCE 6600GT AGP Graphics Cards 2 Compute Login Nodes 62 Compute Nodes 96 Visualization Nodes High Performance Myrinet Interconnect Dual Intel Itanium2 IA-64 Processors 4GB Memory each Dual Intel Itanium2 IA-64 Processors 4GB Memory each Dual Intel Xeon IA-32 Processors 4GB Memory each GeFORCE 6600GT AGP Graphics Cards High Performance Gigabit Ethernet
TeraGrid Visualization Gateway • Motivation • Access • Available Services • Demonstration
Motivation • Simplify access to advanced visualization resources and services • Minimize pain in account request process • Centralized point of access • Hide complexity from users
Security Requirements X.509 Certificate DN in grid-mapfile on visualization resources Accounts on visualization resources Proxy available via MyProxy server Existing TeraGrid users TeraGrid User Portal login and password Community users Create a login, credentials provided Limited access Access
Available Services • Proxy Management • Data Management • Remote Visualization on Maverick • ParaView on UC/ANL Visualization Resource • Volume Rendering on UC/ANL Visualization Resource
TeraGrid Visualization Gateway viz.teragrid.org(Using a browser other than Safari)
Lists currently loaded credentials Load additional proxies Proxy available via MyProxy server Set a default proxy Proxy Manager
Up one directory Home Refresh File Management Toggle Upload Transfer
TeraGrid Visualization Gateway Globus Gatekeeper 3 2 7 VIZ NODE 1 4 VIZ NODE VIZ NODE ParaView Client VIZ NODE ParaView Server 5 6 5 Web Browser ParaView Portlet UChicago/Argonne TeraGrid Visualization Cluster DISK DISK Local Desktop
ParaView Portlet • Select Project • Select ParaView Version • Check node availability • Number of nodes • Number of minutes • Launch ParaView Server • Portlet will check to see if server is ready • Launch ParaView Client
Volume Rendering Portlet • Select Project • Set path to data • Set data type • Set resolution • Check node availability • Number of nodes • Number of minutes • Launch vl3 Server • Portlet will check to see if server is ready, and connect to server