Hypergraph-partitioning-based remapping models for image-space-parallel direct volume rendering of unstructured grids

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-16

  Cambazoglu, Berkant Barla ^a   Aykanat, Cevdet ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Direct volume rendering; Hypergraph partitioning; Image space parallelization; Ray casting; Remapping; Screen partitioning; Unstructured grids

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

DATA REPLICATION; DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; HYPERGRAPH PARTITIONING; IMAGE SPACE PARALLELIZATION; RAY CASTING; REMAPPING; SCREEN PARTITIONING; UNSTRUCTURED GRIDS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33845546139     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2007.253277     Document Type: Article

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