DISplay: A System for Visual-Interaction in Distributed Simulations

摘要

We propose an application-independent Visual Interaction Library (VIL) wellsuited to distributed simulation. Advantages of this system include ease of use, flexibility, code reuse, and modularity. Our design ideas are manifest in the DISplay system, a graphical user-interaction and display library which binds to any parallel software system. We provide examples of its interactive use in the dynamic display of results from sequential: queueing simulations, and distributed particle-physics simulations. These examples illustrate synchronization of multiple remote display requests and potential for enhanced parallel simulation.