Zippy: A framework for computation and visualization on a GPU cluster

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 341-350

  Fan, Zhe ^a   Qiu, Feng ^a   Kaufman, Arie E ^a  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; MESSAGE PASSING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

GENERAL-PURPOSE COMPUTATION ON GPU; GENERAL-PURPOSE COMPUTATIONS; ISOSURFACE EXTRACTION; LATTICE BOLTZMANN FLOW; NON UNIFORM MEMORY ACCESS; PARALLEL VISUALIZATION; PERFORMANCE/COST RATIO; VISUALIZATION APPLICATION; COMPUTATION MODULES; GPU CLUSTER;

GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 42949143017     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2008.01131.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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