Next-Generation Visual Supercomputing using PC Clusters with Volume Graphics Hardware Devices

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 51-

  Muraki, Shigeru ^a   Ogata, Masato ^b   Ma, Kwan Liu ^c   Koshizuka, Kenji ^b   Kajihara, Kagenori ^b   Liu, Xuezhen ^b   Nagano, Yasutada ^b   Shimokawa, Kazuro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b Mitsubishi Precision Co   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

distributed computing systems; graphics hardware; high performance I O; parallel rendering; scalable systems; visualization; volume rendering

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; VOLUME RENDERING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; HARDWARE DEVICES; HIGH PERFORMANCE I/O; LOW-COSTS; PARALLEL RENDERING; PC CLUSTERS; PERFORMANCE; SCALABLE SYSTEMS; VOLUME GRAPHICS;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 1542297067     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/582034.582085     Document Type: Conference Paper

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