APS/DPP November 11 - 15, 2002 in Orlando, FL.

The American Physical Society/Division of Plasma Physics (APS/DPP) Meeting is the annual gathering of magnetic fusion energy scientists in the United States. For the Collaboratory Project this is the largest gathering of our user community. During the first three days of the meeting the Collaboratory Project discussed and demonstrated new capabilities.

More information on these demonstrations is available in a FusionGrid handout (PDF) and a visualization handout (PDF) that were distributed at the meeting. A large general project poster (PDF) advertised our demonstrations at the meeting and a large poster (PDF) discussed the usage of grid-enabled TRANSP, the first FusionGrid code. Photographs from the meeting are available here.

FusionGrid Demonstration with TRANSP

TRANSP on the FusionGrid was used to perform scientific data analysis that was presented at this meeting in an invited oral presentation by Masanori Murakami (FI1.002). The TRANSP FusionGrid demonstration was composed of six components securely interacting through a Globus-enabled implementation of the MDSplus data repository framework:

• PreTRANSP GUI for setting up the TRANSP inputs and starting the run (at APS/DPP)
• An MDSplus data server where TRANSP data is read from and written to (at GA)
• TRANSP, a tokamak data analysis & simulation package (at PPPL)
• Remote monitoring of the status of the TRANSP analysis job (at APS/DPP)
• Scientific visualization of the data with Multigraph (at APS/DPP)
• Visualization of the interactions between components (at APD/DPP)

Scientific Visualization Demonstration with SCIRun

SCIRun was used to perform scientific visualization that was presented at this meeting in an invited oral presentation by Dylan Brennan (FI1.006). The SCIRun demonstration was composed of reading NIMROD data from MDSplus in San Diego and rendering various visualizations.

Remote Shared Visualization with DMX & Access Grid

Shared visualization and remote collaboration was demonstrated between a portable tiled wall and a Linux workstation. DMX software was used to share an IDL graphics application (ReviewPlus) and an OpenGL visualization application (SCIRun) between a Linux workstation and a tiled display wall. This capability is targeted at scientists who want to have an interactive discussion at a distance while sharing and interacting with the same visualization. The tiled wall was also configured as an Access Grid node and it was connectec to the Linux laptop that was acting as a Portable Access Grid node (PIG). The Access Grid technology allows shared video and audio streams as well as shared applications.

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