Multi-GPU volume rendering using MapReduce

HPDC 2010 - Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 841-848

  Stuart, Jeff A ^a   Chen, Cheng Kai ^a   Ma, Kwan Liu ^a   Owens, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

GPU; MapReduce; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITING; GPU; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; MAP-REDUCE; OUT-OF-CORE VISUALIZATION; PARALLEL VOLUME RENDERING; PEAK PERFORMANCE; PROGRAMMING MODELS; RAYCASTING; VISUALIZATION ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; VISUALIZATION;

VOLUME RENDERING;

EID: 78650018922     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1851476.1851597     Document Type: Conference Paper

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