Garuda: A scalable tiled display wall using commodity PCs

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 864-877

  Nirnimesh, ^a,b   Harish, Pawan ^a,b   Narayanan, P J ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (India)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Large scale displays; Parallel visualization and graphics clusters; Visualization over networks

Indexed keywords

GRAPHICS CLUSTERS; LARGE SCALE DISPLAYS; PARALLEL VISUALIZATION; VISUALIZATION OVER NETWORKS;

CHROMIUM; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA REDUCTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION;

PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER NETWORK; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROCOMPUTER; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA DISPLAY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MICROCOMPUTERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 34547396363     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.1049     Document Type: Conference Paper

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