End-to-end study of parallel volume rendering on the IBM blue Gene/p

Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 566-573

  Peterka, Tom ^a   Yu, Hongfeng ^b   Ross, Robert ^a   Ma, Kwan Liu ^c   Latham, Rob ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed scientific visualization; Image compositing; Parallel I O; Parallel volume rendering

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION PATTERN; COMPOSITING; COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE; DATA SETS; DISK I/O; DISTRIBUTED MEMORY; IMAGE COMPOSITING; IN-SITU; LARGE DATASETS; PARALLEL I/O; PARALLEL STORAGE SYSTEMS; PARALLEL VOLUME RENDERING; SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATIONS; SIMULATION ENGINE; VOLUME RENDERING ALGORITHM;

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; SUPERCOMPUTERS; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 77951496395     PISSN: 01903918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPP.2009.27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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