Distributed Visualization of Fluids using Grid

In this paper we focus on the application of grid technology for fluid visualization. Specifically, we are interested on distributed visualization using grid. The focused visualization technique is particle tracing. They can be thought as the trajectory of massless virtual particles upon the simulated flow. We propose a distributed particle tracing system and its implementation for collaborative visualization environments in computational grids. We decided for Globus as a middleware and offer solutions to minimize communications between application components during computation, a bottleneck for particle tracers in distributed memory environments. Besides, external memory (Out-ofCore) polices are discussed as an alternative approach to reduce this problem.