The tool runs in the collaborative environment, or ramework, called Habanero, developed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). The interactive Java graphics library and the networking connections to distributed data sets are from the NOAAServer project.
The collaborative tool, which we will demonstrate, provides on-the-fly integrated browse images from geographically-distributed servers of in situ profile datasets. It allows two or more scientists at different locations to view these images, and allows annotations to simultaneously appear on all collaborating scientists' desktops. All collaborating scientists can pull up data, refine the data display, and interactively post messages.
Future developments could include notifying the prototype to include user feedback, including access to additional data servers, and focus on the robustness of the collaborative tool.
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