Large scale distributed visualization on computational Grids: A review

Computers and Electrical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 403-416

  Wang, Lizhe ^a   Chen, Dan ^b,c   Deng, Ze ^b   Huang, Fang ^d  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GRIDS; COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; DATA EXPLORATION; DISTRIBUTED RESOURCES; DISTRIBUTED VISUALIZATION; GRID ENVIRONMENTS; GRID INFRASTRUCTURES; GRID TECHNOLOGIES; HIGH DEMAND; LOAD-BALANCING ALGORITHM; NETWORK BANDWIDTH; SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING; VISUALIZATION SYSTEM;

GRID COMPUTING; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; VISUALIZATION;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 79959920842     PISSN: 00457906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compeleceng.2011.05.010     Document Type: Review

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