Parallelization of Particle Based Volume Rendering on Tiled Display Wall

Author

Miyachi, Hideo ; Shigeta, Hironori ; Kiyokawa, Kiyoshi ; Kuwano, Hiroshi ; Sakamoto, Naohisa ; Koyamada, Koji

fYear

2010

fDate

14-16 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

435

Lastpage

438

Abstract

In this paper we present a parallelized particle-based volume rendering (PBVR) system to obtain super linear speedup, i.e. the speedup with N processors is greater than N, on a distributed computing system. PBVR is a technique of volume rendering which does not need any sorting therefore it is suitable for parallel execution. We implemented the parallel version by using Open CABIN middleware and measured the performance. We confirmed that the parallelized PBVR is 1.5 to 8 times faster than the serial version.

Keywords

display devices; middleware; parallel processing; rendering (computer graphics); N processors; OpenCABIN middleware; distributed computing system; parallel execution; parallel version; parallelized PBVR; parallelized particle based volume rendering system; super linear speedup; tiled display wall; Benchmark testing; Computers; Data visualization; Image resolution; Rendering (computer graphics); Servers; Three dimensional displays; SAGE; Tiled-displayes; Volume Rendering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS), 2010 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Takayama

ISSN

2157-0418

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8053-1

Electronic_ISBN

2157-0418

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NBiS.2010.109

Filename

5636201