CGLX: A scalable, high-performance visualization framework for networked display environments

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 320-332

  Doerr, Kai Uwe ^a   Kuester, Falko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

distributed applications; distributed systems; Distributed network graphics; information interfaces and representation (HCI); information technology and systems

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVABLE PERFORMANCE; CHROMIUM-BASED; CLUSTER GRAPHICS; CORE ENGINES; CORE FUNCTIONALITY; CROSS-PLATFORM; DEFAULT BEHAVIOR; DISPLAY ENVIRONMENTS; DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED/NETWORK GRAPHICS; HARDWARE-ACCELERATED; HIGH RESOLUTION; INFORMATION INTERFACES; MULTI-PROJECTORS; PARALLEL RENDERING; PERFORMANCE VISUALIZATION; PROGRAMMING INTERFACE; SCALABILITY TEST; SCALABLE VISUALIZATION; TILED DISPLAY;

CHROMIUM; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PROGRAM TRANSLATORS; VISUALIZATION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; METHODOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 78651337145     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.59     Document Type: Article

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