• DocumentCode
    1865899
  • Title

    Parallelizing a high accuracy hardware-assisted volume renderer for meshes with arbitrary polyhedra

  • Author

    Bennett, Janine ; Cook, Richard ; Max, Nelson ; May, Deborah ; Williams, Peter

  • Author_Institution
    California Univ., Davis, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    23-23 Oct. 2001
  • Firstpage
    101
  • Lastpage
    156
  • Abstract
    Discusses our efforts to improve the performance of the high-accuracy (HIAC) volume rendering system, based on cell projection, which is used to display unstructured, scientific data sets for analysis. The parallelization of HIAC, using Pthreads and MPI API´s, resulted in significant speedup, but interactive frame rates are not yet attainable for very large data sets.
  • Keywords
    computer graphic equipment; data visualisation; integration; parallel algorithms; rendering (computer graphics); shared memory systems; HIAC; MPI API; Pthreads; arbitrary polyhedra; high accuracy hardware-assisted volume renderer; meshes; unstructured scientific data sets; Casting; Data analysis; Data visualization; Displays; Graphics; Hardware; Performance analysis; Rendering (computer graphics); Sorting; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Parallel and Large-Data Visualization and Graphics, 2001. Proceedings. IEEE 2001 Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7223-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PVGS.2001.964410
  • Filename
    964410