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Thank you for choosing to demo the OS/2 version of the Environmental
WorkBench!
I. Overview
II. What's The Catch
III. Legal Stuff
IV. System Requirements
V. Installation Instructions
VI. Creating Your Own Data (MeRAF)
VII. Getting Started
VIII. Problems
IX. How to contact SSESCO
I. Overview
The Environmental WorkBench is a suite of integrated applications for
processing Environmental Data. It was developed for scientists and
engineers who need to analyze and visualize large datasets and communicate
the information in a highly productive environment. The Environmental
WorkBench is designed to easily interface to many models and monitoring
sources. This allows the user to explore data concerning underground
pollution and air dispersion activities without learning any additional
tools. Only one, easy to use interface is required to visualize and
explore any environmental data that is required or of interest. In a
matter of hours, a new user can effectively be using the EWB to explore
data, understand what the data represents and communicate to others easily
and more effectively.
Unique Features: Visualization products are not a new capability for
computers. Savi3D, however, brings a new dimension of capability: the
ability to interactively, visually and dynamically explore a large 3D
data set. No more capturing single images then trying to animate them.
Now you can watch the images change as you move through time. The
product is a C++ application employing object oriented development
techniques. The 3D graphics use the emerging OpenGL standard which is
supported on all popular PC and UNIX platforms.
The user is able to see what has occurred over time, as well as model and
predict what will happen in the future. This brings new and greater
understanding to the discussion and remediation of pollution concerns.
Exploration and understanding is easier and quicker to grasp and the
communication to regulators, management, customers and the legal
communities will be much more effective, precise, accurate and
understandable. The environmental engineer can do a better job in less
time. Their customer gets a better definition and understanding of the
problem and the remediation solution can be defined and monitored to
insure the solution is optimized. Everyone will benefit since all will
be able to really understand the problem, the solution and the progress
being made to solve the problem.
The Primary Customer will be the environmental engineer trying to
understand and gain approval for a plan to remediate an existing
pollution problem or prevent future pollution or effectively communicate
issues related to either a real pollution problem described by real data
or future concerns described by modeling. Current and future uses are :
- Litigation of pollution cases have already been shown to benefit
from the use of the product and will generate additional usage by
environmental engineers as well as specific industrial customers.
- Federal and University researchers studying and predicting
environmental trends or working on remediation technologies
represent a significant customer base.
- Regulatory agencies, interested public or private entities and
individuals will also purchase the product to better understand
the issue of interest, and more effectively communicate their
position or proposed solution.
II. What's The Catch
Q. What am I not getting in this demo version?
A1. Support, of course. Purchasing the full version gives you
access to telephone and e-mail support. We will consider
creating an e-mail mailing-list for demo customers if interest
is significant.
Demo customers are welcome to provide us with bug reports and
feedback.
A2. This version of EWB can only read data files that SSESCO decides
should be readable by the demo. Naturally, the tutorial files
are readable by the demo version. We plan to distribute other
data files that are of more interest and make them readable by
the demo version. Basically, you can't create your own data
files and read them using this version of savi3D.
A3. Documentation. This version only contains documentation for
the tutorial. Purchasers of the full program will receive
full documentation.
To purchase the full version of the Evironmental WorkBench, contact
Kent Steiner at 612-481-0804. We'd appreciate it.
III. Legal Stuff
Copyright (c) 1996 Supercomputer Systems Engineering and Services
Company. All rights reserved.
SOFTWARE LICENSE NOTICE
The software described on this web page is furnished under a license
agreement and may be used only in accordance with the terms of that
agreement. Any unauthorized duplication or use of savi3D, in whole
or in part, in print, or in any other storage and retrieval system is
prohibited.
LICENSES AND TRADEMARKS
The names savi3D, EWB, SSESCO, and the Environmental WorkBench are
trademarks of Supercomputer Systems Engineering and Services Company.
ShowME, ToolME, and dlg_extract are copyrights of Supercomputer Systems
Engineering and Services Company. Other trademark names used in this
document are the property of their respective owners and SSESCO makes
no claim to them.
GOVERNMENT RESTRICTED RIGHTS
The EWB program and documentation are provided with RESTRICTED RIGHTS.
Use, duplication, or disclosure by the Government is subject to
restrictions as set forth in subparagraph (c)(1)(ii) of the Rights in
Technical Data and Computer Software clause at DFARS 252.227-7013 or
in subparagraphs (c)(1) and (2) of the commercial Computer Software --
Restricted Rights at 48 CFR 52.227-19, as applicable.
LIMITED WARRANTY
Supercomputer Systems Engineering and Services Company makes no
warranties, express or implied, including without limitation the
implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for any particular
purpose, regarding the software. SSESCO does not warrant, guarantee
or make any representations regarding the use or the results of the
use of the software in terms of its correctness, accuracy, reliability,
or otherwise. The entire risk as to the results and performance of
the software is assumed by you. Because the exclusion of implied
warranties is not permitted by some states the above exclusion may not
apply to you.
In no event will SSESCO and their directors, officers, employees or
agents be liable to you for any consequential, incidental or indirect
damages (including damages for loss of business profits, business
interruption, loss of business information and the like) arising out
of the use or inability to use the software even if SSESCO has been
advised of the possibility of such damages. Because some jurisdictions
do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential
or incidental damages, the above limitations may not apply to you.
NOTE: EWB is packaged using Info-ZIP's compression utility. The
installation program uses UnZip to read zip files. Info-ZIP's software
(Zip, UnZip and related utilities) is free and can be obtained as
source code or executables from various anonymous-ftp sites, including
ftp.uu.net:/pub/archiving/zip/*.
Whew!
IV. System Requirements
A minimum system for running the Environmental WorkBench would be:
Processor: 486DX
Memory: 16MB RAM
OS: OS/2 2.1
Video: 1024x768x256
The Environmental WorkBench is a very processor intensive program.
It will run fine on a 486DX, but will improve dramatically when
making use of faster processors.
Due to limitations in the OpenGL drivers, the screen resolution
must be set to exactly 1024x768. The color depth must be either
256 color or 16 million color. IBM has provided us with more
up-to-date drivers that eliminate these restrictions. We expect
to eliminate these restrictions in our next release.
A VESA or PCI local bus for the video card is highly recommended.
V. Installation Instructions
It is assumed that you have either received this distribution on
floppy disks or as a zipfile archive. Please choose the method
appropriate with your distribution.
FLOPPY INSTALL:
- Insert disk1 into the drive.
- Go to the floppy drive by typing A: (or B: if that's where your
floppy drive is).
- Type INSTALL
- Read the readme file displayed.
- Select Install Product from the Action menu
- Choose the destination directory and Continue
- It is highly recommended that you allow the install program to
update your config.sys for you. A backup will be made automatically.
- As you are prompted for diskettes, place the appropriate diskette
into the floppy drive.
- Remove the floppy from the floppy drive.
- Shutdown and reboot your computer
HARD DISK INSTALL
- Unzip the archive
- Change into the disk1 directory
- Type INSTALL
- Read the readme file displayed.
- Select Install Product from the Action menu
- Choose the destination directory and Continue
- It is highly recommended that you allow the install program to
update your config.sys for you. A backup will be made automatically.
- As you are prompted for diskettes, enter the correct directory name.
- Shutdown and reboot your computer
Config.sys:
If you choose not to have the install program modify your config.sys
for you, you will need to make the following changes:
The CONFIG.SYS file is located in the root directory of your boot
drive. You can use E.EXE as an editor to edit the config.sys
file. For the sake of explanation, we will assume that you
installed the product into C:\EWB.
- It's required that C:\EWB\DLL be added to your LIBPATH line
- It's required that you set the SAVI_PATH environment variable
to C:\EWB\SAVI3D_2.0
- It's recommended that C:\EWB\SAVI3D_2.0 be added to your PATH line
VI. Creating Your Own Data (MeRAF)
The Environmental WorkBench makes use of the NetCDF based MeRAF file
system for data storage. The MeRAF package is available, at no charge,
from the SSESCO FTP site (ftp.ssesco.com). If you do not have FTP
access, please contact SSESCO for alternate means of obtaining the
package.
The MeRAF package includes a full set of C, Fortran and C++ libraries
for managing your data. Structures supported include 2D grids, 3D
grids, moving grids, particles, set-of-points, and soon to support
TIN grids.
The package also includes tools designed to convert your ASCII
data into the MeRAF format. If the tools supplies are not able
to do the conversion, contact SSESCO for assistance.
VII. Getting Started
The online documentation is implemented using the popular HTML
format. It can be read using any graphicsl HTML compliant browser
(tested with WebExplorer, Mosaic, Internet Explorer and Navigator).
For you OS/2 users, that's likely to be WebExplorer. WebExplorer
comes with OS/2 Warp. We recommend you update to the latest
version. Updates can be found at hobbes.nmsu.edu.
Use your browser to open the HELP.HTM file in the EWB\tutorial
directory. This document will guide you through the tutorial.
The tutorial demonstrates some of the more basic features of
savi3D. After finishing the tutorial, start experimenting with
more advanced features (hit that Option button). Before
long, you'll be no less than an expert.
VIII. Problems
Make sure of the following:
- You must have a DEVICE statement in your CONFIG.SYS file set to
either SSMDD.SYS (OS/2 3.0 Warp) or SMVDD.SYS (OS/2 2.1). If
this does not exist, the best way to handle it is to install
multimedia support.
- Your video is running at exactly 1024x768 with 256 (8 bit) colors
or 16 million colors (24 bit). You may want to check the following
Internet sites for more recent video drivers for your video card:
http://www.europe.ibm.com/getdoc/psmemea/progserv/device (All)
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/drivers (All)
ftp://ftp.nine.com (Number Nine)
ftp://ftp.atitech.com (ATI)
ftp://ftp.diamondmm.com (Diamond Multimedia)
- Make sure that the EWB DLL directory is set in your LIBPATH in your
CONFIG.SYS. See the "Installation Instructions" section for more
detailed information.
- Make sure that the SAVI_PATH environment variable is properly set
in your CONFIG.SYS. See the "Installation Instructions" section
for more detailed information.
It should be noted that there are two log files located in the SAVI3D_2.0
directory (savi3D.log and saviWIN.log). These files contain information
that may make it easier to debug any problems with running the program.
IX. How to contact SSESCO
The person you want to speak to is our Sales Manager, Kent Steiner.
He can be reached via the following methods.
Mail: 3490 Lexington Avenue North, Suite 110, Shoreview, MN 55126
Phone: (612) 481-0804
Fax: (612) 481-0053
Email: info@SSESCO.com
Web: http://www.SSESCO.com