Portal Access to Scientific Computation and Customized Collaborative Visualization on Campus Grid

In order to integrate the distributed computing resources in Zhejiang University (ZJU), a campus grid is constructed by using the hierarchical combination of middleware, Globus Toolkit and Sun Grid Engine. As one realization of the computational grid, the foundation of the campus grid provides a large amount of scientific computation cycles. Furthermore, our grid system adopts two different approaches, Java 3D and ParaView, to manipulate a collaborative visualization of the computed data respectively. Therefore the users can choose the most appropriate method according to their requirements. Three cases are tested on the campus grid via portal access. The results demonstrate that the ZJU campus grid provides powerful computation cycles and an efficient collaborative visualization service