Program Steering: From Interactive Programs to Distributed Laboratories

对于科学研究人员、工程师和开发人员来说，能够与运行在并行或分布式机器上的高性能应用程序进行交互是非常重要的。该项目将探索各种技术，使计算仪器的灵活和交互式使用成为可能，包括在线监测、分析、转向和实验。此外，它将允许用户利用未来集成计算、网络和用户界面平台所启用的新功能，包括从远程位置“从同事的肩膀上看”，在多个用户或仪器之间共享计算仪器的输出，使用高质量的可视化技术或沉浸式环境同时处理同一问题，或联合操作单个共享计算工具。或者甚至暂时从事替代或补充任务，然后将其重新整合到正在进行的实验或过程中。

It is important for scientific investigators, engineers, and developers to be able to interact with their high performance applications running on parallel or distributed machines. This project will explore technologies to enable the flexible and interactive use of computational instruments, including on-line monitoring, analysis, steering, and experimentation. In addition it will permit users to exploit the new functionalities enabled by future integrated computing, networking, and user interface platforms, which include 'looking over a colleague's shoulder' from a remote location, sharing the outputs of computational instruments among multiple users or instruments, working concurrently on the same problem using high quality visualization techniques or immersive environments, or jointly operating a single shared computational tool, or even temporarily working on alternative or complementary tasks which are then reintegrated with ongoing experiments or processes.