RAVE: the resource-aware visualization environment

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 415-448

  Grimstead, I J ^a   Avis, N J ^a   Walker, D W ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous systems; Remote rendering; Resource aware; Visualization; Web services

Indexed keywords

DISPLAY DEVICES; FLOW VISUALIZATION; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING; VISUALIZATION; WEB SERVICES; WEBSITES;

COLLABORATIVE GRIDS; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; REMOTE RENDERING; RESOURCE AWARE; RESOURCE AWARE VISUALIZATION ENVIRONMENTS; RESOURCE DISCOVERY; SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS; VISUALIZATION ENVIRONMENT;

RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS);

EID: 63449134643     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1327     Document Type: Article

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