Parallel sphere rendering

Parallel Computing

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 961-974

  Krogh, Michael ^a   Painter, James ^a   Hansen, Charles ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Parallel rendering; Sphere rendering; Visualization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA STRUCTURES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE DATA (MIMD); PARALLEL SPHERE RENDERING;

PARALLEL ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0031192071     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8191(97)00038-0     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. D.M. Beazley, P.S. Lomdahl, N. Gronbech-Jensen, P. Tamayo, High performance communication and memory caching scheme for molecular dynamics on the CM-5, in: Proceedings of the 8th International Parallel Processing Symposium, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1994, pp. 800-809.
2. J. Blinn, How to draw a sphere - part 1, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 15 (1) (1995) 78-83.
3. J. Blinn, How to draw a sphere - part 2, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 15 (3) (1995) 70-76.
4. J. Blinn, How to draw a sphere - part 3, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 15 (5) (1995) 87-93.
5. Cray Research Inc., CRAY T3D hardware reference manual, October 1993.
6. H. Fuchs et al., Fast spheres, shadows, textures, transparencies, and image enhancements in Pixel-Planes, in: SIGGRAPH 85 Conference Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., July 1985, pp. 111-120.
7. H. Fuchs et al., Pixel-Planes 5: A heterogeneous multiprocessor graphics system using processor-enhanced memories, in: SIGGRAPH 89 Conference Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., July 1989, pp. 79-88.
8. IEEE Computer Society, 1993 Parallel Rendering Symposium Proceedings, ACM SIGGRAPH, October 1993.
9. IEEE Computer Society, 1995 Parallel Rendering Symposium Proceedings, ACM SIGGRAPH, October 1995.
10. V. Karamcheti, A. Chien, A comparison of architectural support for the TMC CM-5 and the Cray T3D, in: Proceedings of ISCA'95, 1995.
11. A. Lastra, Private Communication, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, July 1996.
12. P.S. Lomdahl, P. Tamayo, N. Gronbech-Jensen, D. M. Beazley, 50 GFlops molecular dynamics on the Connection Machine 5, in: Proceedings of Supercomputing 93, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1993, pp. 520-527.
13. K. Ma, J. Painter, C. Hansen, M. Krogh, Parallel volume rendering using binary-swap compositing, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 14 (4) (1994) 59-68.
14. B. McCormick, T. DeFanti, M. Brown, Visualization in scientific computing, Computer Graphics, 21(6), 1987.
15. S. Molnar, M. Cox, D. Ellsworth, H. Fuchs, A sorting classification of parallel rendering, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 14 (4) (1994) 23-32.
16. J. Painter, P. McCormick, M. Krogh, C. Hansen, G. C. de Verdière, The ACL message passing library, EPFL Supercomputing Review, 7, 1995.
17. J.W. Patterson, Fast spheres, in: R.J. Hubbold, R. Juan (Eds.), Eurographics '93, Eurographics, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, UK, 1993, pp. 61-72.
18. T. Porter, Spherical shading, in: SIGGRAPH 78 Conference Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., August 1978, pp. 282-285.
19. Silicon Graphics Inc. libsphere. online man page.
20. J. Staudhammer, On display of space filling atomic models in real-time, in: SIGGRAPH 78 Conference Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., August 1978, pp. 167-172.
21. Thinking Machines Corporation, The Connection Machine CM-5 technical summary, 1991.
22. Thinking Machines Corporation. Render reference manual for Paris, 1991.