Grid based virtual visualization and web services model

This paper brings out the details of a GARUDA Grid supported virtual visualization and collaborative model built to support the Grid Virtual Organization members as well as to the nationwide end users who can make use of the high end HPC/Grid simulation results for their application. Initially from Grid visualization cluster, through a customized secured portal interface mechanism the visualization functions of many open source software tools have been virtually made available between and across the remote Grid user locations. Subsequently the end user specific information has been filtered out from the processed grid simulation results and been transferred to a web server environment. Non-Grid application members as well as public users can access this web server to get the information pertaining to their application interest as well as can collaborate with equal minded researcher. The complete model has been demonstrated by Grid enabling a Flood assessment model only using the open source tools.