Massively parallel volume rendering using 2-3 swap image compositing

2008 SC - International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Yu, Hongfeng ^a   Wang, Chaoli ^a   Ma, Kwan Liu ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY NUMBER; COMPOSITING; IMAGE COMPOSITING; INTER PROCESSOR COMMUNICATION; OPTIMALITY; PARALLEL RENDERING; PARALLEL VISUALIZATION; PARALLEL VOLUME RENDERING; SIMULATION DATA; VOLUME DATA SETS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; SUPERCOMPUTERS; VOLUME RENDERING;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 70350752445     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SC.2008.5219060     Document Type: Conference Paper

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