Large volume visualization of compressed time-dependent datasets on GPU clusters

Parallel Computing

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 205-219

  Strengert, M ^a   Magallon M ^b   Weiskopf, D ^a   Guthe, Stefan ^c   Ertl, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distributed network graphics; Graphics systems; Viewing algorithms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED GRAPHICS; GRAPHICS SYSTEMS; NETWORK GRAPHICS; VIEWING ALGORITHMS;

DATA COMPRESSION;

EID: 18144415084     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parco.2005.02.006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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