Collaviz is an innovative multi-domain remote collaborative platform for the simulation-based design applications.The major value brought by Collaviz to the scientific and industrial community is to make remote analysis and collaboration easily available and scalable. Web-based technologies, on the top of shared high-performance computing and visualization centers, will permit researchers and engineers handling very large data sets, including 3D data models, by using a single workstation, wherever in the world. Just a “standard” internet connexion will be needed.Collaviz proposes a smart solution to break the bottlenecks of data volume production and processing that the industry will quickly face.In the scope of the Collaviz project, we will concentrate our effort on dimensioning the platform to especially address the pre- and post-processing needs within the simulation-based design chain.Collaviz will deal with 4 major challenges:
- To provide applications designed for habits of very different communities (geophysics, fluid dynamics, structure, biochemical, drug design…),
- To use mainstream technologies for the service access (low bandwidth internet access, standard hardware for visualization…),
- Interactive and participative collaboration, not only remote “shared display” visualization.
- Moreover, these technologies have to be accessible easily, and Collaviz will provide the proper tools to manage all the services from a user and administrator point of view, to have a full transparent access to these scalable resources: visualization clusters, grid computing, etc.