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gLucifer Overview
gLucifer is a general visualization framework based upon the foundation and domain components of StGermain. It provides both interactive and background (compute time) rendering but concentrates on the latter. This enables the rendering of computationally intense, remotely running applications that are either too large to transmit or too large to render on a local workstation. Instead gLucifer provides the user a 4-D streaming movie.
It is tartgetted for Underworld, but can be used for any grid or particle based computational models that either have the source code available or leverages the StGermain constructs. It provides a toolkit for the development of analysis of model phenomena. To achieve this gLucifer incorporates z-buffering composition of parallel rendering, implemented through OpenGL and MPI.
gLucifer (Monash University) is under development as part of the Australian Computational Earth Systems Simulator (ACcESS), an Australian Government National Research Facility.
gLucifer is currently undergoing a revision that will bring about greater flexibility in it's analysis and visualization capabilities.
