Parallel volume visualization on a hypercube architecture

Proceedings of the 1992 Workshop on Volume Visualization, VVS 1992

Volumn , Issue , 1992, Pages 9-16

  Montani, C ^a   Perego, R ^b   Scopigno, R ^b  

^a Istituto Elaborazione Dell'Informazione Consiglio Nazionale DelIe Ricerche ^*  (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS (CIRCUIT SWITCHING); MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; RAY TRACING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; VISUALIZATION;

EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT; EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION; LOAD BALANCING TECHNIQUE; LOW RESOLUTION IMAGES; NETWORK INTERCONNECTIONS; PARTITIONING TECHNIQUES; VISUALIZATION PROCESS; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 33747962575     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/147130.147139     Document Type: Conference Paper

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