Volume visualization system on PC cluster

Author

Dohi, Yasunori ; Onuki, Mao

Author_Institution

Yokohama Nat. Univ., Japan

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

5-8 Nov. 2002

Firstpage

2462

Abstract

We propose here a volume rendering system consisting of many client PC´s and Gbit Ethernet hubs. The original volume data V³ is divided Np (the number of PCs) square poles alongside x-axis, y-axis or z-axis which is nearest to the main direction of rays. Each PC performs the rendering based on its own sub volume data (V³/Np). Partial images of all PCs are transferred to adjacent PCs to superpose images with their own images. After superposition, they transfer partial results to next adjacent PCs. On our computer simulation, the system consisting of 54 sets of client PC´s will accomplish the volume visualization at the speed 30 FPS.

Keywords

data visualisation; digital simulation; image processing; local area networks; rendering (computer graphics); workstation clusters; Gbit Ethernet hubs; PC cluster; client PC; computer simulation; images superposition; original volume data; partial images; rays direction; square poles; sub volume data; volume rendering system; volume visualization; volume visualization system; Biomedical imaging; Computational modeling; Data visualization; Ethernet networks; Hardware; Medical simulation; Optical attenuators; Parallel processing; Personal communication networks; Rendering (computer graphics);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

IECON 02 [Industrial Electronics Society, IEEE 2002 28th Annual Conference of the]

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7474-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECON.2002.1185359

Filename

1185359