A refined data addressing and processing scheme to accelerate volume raycasting

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 719-729

  Grimm, Sören ^a   Bruckner, Stefan ^a   Kanitsar, Armin ^a   Gröller, Eduard ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bricking; Parallel computing; Thread level parallelism; Volume raycasting

Indexed keywords

CACHE MEMORY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATA PROCESSING; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; FEEDBACK; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

BRICKING; THREAD-LEVEL PARALLELISM; VISUALIZATION SYSTEMS; VOLUME RAYCASTING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 4043120645     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2004.06.010     Document Type: Article

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