A distributed 3D rendering application for massive data sets

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E87-D, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1805-1812

  Zhu, Huabing ^a   Chan, Tony K Y ^a   Wang, Lizhe ^a   Jegathese, Reginald C ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Computational grids; Distributed rendering; Massive data sets; Resource management; Task partition

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL GRIDS; DISTRIBUTED RENDERING; MASSIVE DATA SETS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; TASK PARTITION;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 3142740137     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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