How the Grid will affect the architecture of future visualization systems

Shaky City The promise of Grid computing, particularly Gridenabled visualization, is to employ a transparent interconnect fabric to link data sources, computing (visualization) resources and users into widely distributed Virtual Organizations (VOs) for the purposes of tackling increasingly complex problems. However, there exists a wide gulf between current visualization technologies and the vision of global, Grid-enabled visualization capabilities. In this article, we discuss our views of how visualization technology must evolve in order to be truly effective in a Grid environment. Data Caches HPC Resources Simulations