Accessible haptic technology for drug design applications.

Structure-based drug design is a creative process that displays several features that make it closer to human reasoning than to machine automation. However, very often the user intervention is limited to the preparation of the input and analysis of the output of a computer simulation. In some cases, allowing human intervention directly in the process could improve the quality of the results by applying the researcher intuition directly into the simulation.

Grid enabled remote visualization of medical datasets.

We present an architecture for remote visualization of datasets over the Grid. This permits an implementation-agnostic approach, where different systems can be discovered, reserved and orchestrated without being concerned about specific hardware configurations. We illustrate the utility of our approach to deliver high-quality interactive visualizations of medical datasets (circa 1 million triangles) to physically remote users, whose local physical resources would be otherwise overwhelmed.