Parallelizing the ZSWEEP Algorithm for Distributed-Shared Memory Architectures

2nd IEEE TCVG / Eurographics International Workshop on Volume Graphics, VG 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 183-194

  Farias, Ricardo ^a   Silva, Cĺaudio T ^b  

^a USA   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CACHE MEMORY; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS);

A-PLANE; DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY; PARALLELIZATIONS; PARALLELIZING; PERFORMANCE; SHARED MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; SHARED MEMORY MACHINES; SIMPLE++; THREE GENERATIONS; VOLUMETRIC GRIDS;

MEMORY ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 11144258267     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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