Image-space-parallel direct volume rendering on a cluster of PCs

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2869, Issue , 2003, Pages 457-464

  Cambazoglu, B Barla ^a   Aykanat, Cevdet ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; MICROCOMPUTERS; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; VOLUME RENDERING;

COMMUNICATION OVERHEADS; DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; DISTRIBUTED MEMORY; GRAPH PARTITIONING; HYPERGRAPH PARTITIONING; JAGGED PARTITIONING; PARTITIONING PROBLEM; UNSTRUCTURED DATA;

PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES;

EID: 0142246101     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-39737-3_57     Document Type: Article

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