Long-Haul Communications Support for Visualization of Computational Aeroscience Simulations

This paper discusses the long-haul data communications requirements needed to support visualization of Computational Aeroscience (CAS) simulations. A scientific computing model is presented, from which current communications requirements are derived. This model is then expanded to describe the CAS collaborative visualization environment, in which scientists from multiple NASA centers will collaborate on multidisciplinary, time-accurate simulations. An analysis of this model indicates that CAS data communications requirements will increase to 10-100 megabytes/sec by 1996.