Abstract: The apparatus for visualizing an image, of the present invention, comprises: a visualization processing unit having a numerical simulator for computing and analyzing a condition of an object; and a pixel data generator for generating pixel data representing the condition of the object based on the simulated result by the numerical simulator and parameters for visualization and generating a Z-buffer value representing a depth from a specified viewpoint; and an image display for displaying an image based on synthetic pixel data, the display having a pixel data synthesizer for synthesizing the synthetic pixel data for one frame from the pixel data and the Z-buffer value supplied from the pixel data generator, said image display being connected to said visualization processing unit through an external network.

Abstract: A calculation service providing system, comprising calculation servers, a Web server and terminals which are connected to one another on a network, wherein each of the calculation servers stores one or more applications for providing calculation service, wherein the Web server stores and publishes on the network one or more procedure data files, in each of which procedure data defining a calculation service using the one or more applications stored in one or more of the calculation servers is described, and wherein each of the terminals executes a procedure processing program for having one or more of the calculation servers execute one or more applications on the basis of the procedure data described in the procedure data file downloaded from the Web server.