Workstation cluster is all show [Focus]

Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Digital Equipment Corporation have developed a workstation cluster that provides visualization power that they claim could be as good as or better than many supercomputers. Workstation clusters are becoming the computational resource of choice for many researchers: their power rivals that of supercomputers, and they´re cheaper. However, they run into problems when they are used for visualization: clusters have not been able to seamlessly transmit visualization data to a screen. The authors have overcome this limitation with the Distributed Data Imaging System described herein.