Adaptive load balancing for raycasting of non-uniformly bricked volumes

Parallel Computing

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 406-419

  Muller C ^a   Strengert, M ^a   Ertl, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distributed applications; Distributed network graphics; Viewing algorithms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA STRUCTURES; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; OBJECT SPACE PARTITIONING; PARALLEL VOLUME RENDERING SYSTEM; VIEWING ALGORITHMS;

RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 34249052630     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parco.2006.12.002     Document Type: Article

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