Overview of the I-WAY: Wide Area Visual Supercomputing

Created on January 01, 1996

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Overview of the I-WAY: Wide Area Visual Supercomputing

DeFanti, T.,Foster I.,Papka, M.E.,Stevens, R.,Kuhfuss, T.

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  • Caption: Logical Map of the I-WAY
  • Credit: Richard Foster and Linda Winkler, ANL, 1996

This paper discusses the I-WAY project and provides an overview of the papers in this issue of IJSA. The I-WAY is an experimental environment for building distributed virtual reality applications and for exploring issues of distributed wide area resource management and scheduling. The goal of the I-WAY project is to enable researchers use multiple internetworked supercomputers and advanced visualization systems to conduct very large-scale computations. By connecting a dozen ATM testbeds, seventeen supercomputer centers, five virtual reality research sites, and over sixty applications groups, the I-WAY project has created an extremely diverse wide area environment for exploring advanced applications. This environment has provided a glimpse of the future for advanced scientific and engineering computing.

Citation: DeFanti, T., Foster I., Papka, M.E., Stevens, R., Kuhfuss, T., Overview of the I-WAY: Wide Area Visual Supercomputing, The International Journal of Supercomputer Applications and High Performance Computing, vol 10, no 23, pp. 123-131, 1996-01-01. https://doi.org/10.1177/109434209601000201