A study of I/O methods for parallel visualization of large-scale data

Parallel Computing

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 167-183

  Yu, Hongfeng ^a   Ma, Kwan Liu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

High performance computing; Massively parallel supercomputing; MPI; Parallel I O; Parallel rendering; Scientific visualization; Time varying data; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; SEISMIC WAVES; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; MASSIVELY PARALLEL SUPERCOMPUTING; MPI; PARALLEL RENDERING; SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION; TIME VARYING DATA; VOLUME RENDERING;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 18144420440     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parco.2005.02.004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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