Coherence and performance for interactive scientific visualization applications

  • Authors:
  • Sébastien Limet;Sophie Robert;Ahmed Turki

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orléans, Université d'Orléans, France;Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orléans, Université d'Orléans, France;Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orléans, Université d'Orléans, France

  • Venue:
  • SC'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Software composition
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper addresses the use of component-based development to build interactive scientific visualization applications. Our overall approach is to make this programming technique more accessible to non-computer-scientists. Therefore, we present a method to, out of constraints given by the user, automatically build and coordinate the dataflow of a real-time interactive scientific visualization application. This type of applications must run as fast as possible while preserving the accuracy of their results. These two aspects are often conflicting, for example when it comes to allowing message dropping or not. Our approach aims at automatically finding the best balance between these two requirements when building the application. An overview of a prototype implementation based on the FlowVR middleware is also given.