Griz: experience with remote visualization over an optical grid

This paper describes the experiments of remote rendering over an intercontinental optical network during the iGrid2002 conference in Amsterdam from September 23 to 26. A rendering cluster in Chicago was used to generate images which were displayed in real-time on a 4-tile visualization setup in Amsterdam. On average, one gigabit per second (1 Gbps) was consumed to enable remote visualization, at interactive frame rate, with a 1600 × 1200 pixels configuration.