DHPC Technical Report DHPC-003
Geographic Information Systems Applications on an ATM-Based
Distributed High Performance Computing System
K.A.Hawick, H.A.James, K.J.Maciunas, F.A.Vaughan, A.L.Wendelborn,
M.Buchhorn, M.Rezny, S.R.Taylor and M.D.Wilson
Archived: 15 November 1996
Published in Proc. of
High Performance Computing and Networks (HPCN) Europe '97,
Vienna, April 1997.
Abstract
We present a distributed geographic information system (DGIS) built on
a distributed high performance computing environment using a number of
software infrastructural building blocks and computational resources
interconnected by an ATM-based broadband network. Archiving, access
and processing of scientific data are discussed in the context of
geographic and environmental applications with special emphasis on the
potential for local-area weather, agriculture, soil and land
management products. Software technologies such as tiling and caching
techniques can be used to optimise storage requirements and response
time for applications requiring very large data sets such as
multi-channel satellite data. Distributed High Performance Computing
hardware technology underpins our proposed system. In particular, we
discuss the capabilities of a distributed hardware environment
incorporating: high bandwidth communications networks such as
Telstra's Experimental Broadband Network (EBN); large capacity
hierarchical storage systems; and high performance parallel computing
resources.
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