A PC cluster system for simultaneous interactive volumetric modeling and visualization

Author

Muraki, Shigeru ; Lum, Eric B. ; Ma, Kwan-Liu ; Ogata, Masato ; Liu, Xuezhen

Author_Institution

AIST, Japan

fYear

2003

fDate

21-21 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

95

Lastpage

102

Abstract

A number of problems are well suited for volumetric representation for both simulation and storage, however, the large amount of data that needs to be processed and rendered with these volumes makes interactive manipulation extremely challenging. We present a scalable PC cluster system (VG cluster) designed specifically to enable simultaneous volumetric computation and visualization, using compositing hardware devices and the latest PC graphics accelerators. We demonstrate the flexibility and performance of this system with several different applications that include reaction-diffusion simulation, volumetric image processing, and vector field visualization. We also discuss how to improve the visual computing performance of this system with some load balancing techniques.

Keywords

computer graphic equipment; data visualisation; parallel processing; reaction-diffusion systems; rendering (computer graphics); workstation clusters; PC cluster system; graphics hardware; interactive volumetric modeling; load balancing technique; parallel volume rendering; reaction-diffusion simulation; visual computing; volume graphics; volume visualization; volumetric image processing; Application software; Computational modeling; Computer graphics; Computer simulation; Data visualization; Hardware; Image processing; Large-scale systems; Load management; Rendering (computer graphics);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Large-Data Visualization and Graphics, 2003. PVG 2003. IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8122-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVGS.2003.1249047

Filename

1249047