Overall, the Web has provided fusion scientists anĢ046 E.N. The deployed applications will be presenteds used in producing the general graphics toolkit. It allowsnd share with others, the large sets of data generated by thetext Preprocessor (PHP), a general-purpose scripting languageinputs, and determine the data source types and locations tovascript and SVG based web graphics package, then quicklyt available to the worldwide audience. To a general toolkit that can be deployed as required. Protovisdraws the interactive graphs and madeployed to both the simulation and as well as the architecture and technoĬhnologies, it is becoming feasible for websites to operate a lotas opened up more possibilities for utilizing the web browserding new means of on-line communication and collaboration.yment for utilizing these enhanced web graphics capabilities Hfor the Web, is used to process a serifetch and organize the data. Tfor interactive scientic research and This paper describes the research andon the fusion research tools which hausers to dynamically create, interact wfusion experiments and simulations. With the continuing development of wlike a scientic desktop application. All rights reserved.rg/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2012.03.041ased (HTML5) interactive graphics for f, D.P. This hasopened up substantially more possibilities for utilizing the Web for These graphics can be rendered on the client-sidewith dynamic data collected from the server-side, while the over-all interface utilizes the features provided by both ends. They are able to produce highlyinteractive, graphics-dense web pages without a browser plugin.Since they do not require users to resort to browser plugins, theycan also be displayed on any mobile platform supporting mod-ern browsers.
Technologies such as HTML5, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG),the 3rd standard of Cascading Style Sheet (CSS3) or JavaScript areable to help avoid such limitations. Plugins and mobile plat-forms have added new constraints to the philosophy of one simpleprogram. Webpages requiring certain plugins to display on a web browser maysimply fail on some mobile platforms. Also, there has been a signicantincrease in the usage of mobile platforms that often behave dif-ferently and vary in their supporting plugin requirements. Most of the time, it is up to the users to download,install and maintain the plugins.
First, it iscommon for web pages to require client-side plugins to display thepage properly. However, such developments have produced somelimitations conning the idea of Universal Readership. With the recent advancements in web technologies, it hasbecome more feasible for websites to operate more like desktopapplications. Used for collaborative writing and tracking application Open source packagesdiaWiki, WordPress, and Bugzilla have been popular Abla to be published in Fusion Engi-ĭesign) utilize some of the recent web technologiesrs to remotely monitor and participate in the on-goings and simulations in real-time. a decade in the magnetic fusion community, the Weba big role in documentation, monitoring and collabora-uch as the DIII-D experimental web-portal, Alcatorectronic logbook and the monitoring web-portal forfor Simulation of RF Wave Interactions with Magne-amics (SWIM) (refer to Interactive Monitoring Portalimulations by G.
The ubiquityt and easy accessibility to other data sources make theĪttractive means of information sharing. Sinces as a collaboration tool for a group of scientists at CERN,w an estimated 1.9 billion users worldwide and itstechnologies continue to advance rapidly. However, since this informa-tion is provided mostly in text or static images, the scientists arestill required to rely on external applications to further graphicallyinvestigate their data.Ġ920-3796/$ year later, the Web has signicantly evolved toobal data sharing space for a broad range of users. Tools sC-MODs elthe Center tohydrodynfor Fusion Sneering andto allow useexperimentsuch as Meand activelyĮmeextremely useful and accessible solution to catalogue and shareinformation about their research. About tserve as a glits early daythere are nosupporting of the clienWeb a veryįor overhas played tion. The Web was established based on the principle of UniversalReadership, once information is available, it should be accessiblefrom any type of computer, in any country, and an (authorized)person should only have to use one simple program to access it. Keywords:WebHTML5Interactive graData visualizaĭeplos led ith ayperes of, a Jakes iexperlogie Fusion Engineering and Design 87 (2012) 2045 2051Ĭontents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect