Configurable data prefetching scheme for interactive visualization of large-scale volume data

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8294, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Jeong, Byungil ^a   Navrátil, Paul A ^a   Gaither, Kelly P ^a   Abram, Gregory ^a   Johnson, Gregory P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Data prefetching; GPU accelerated Isosurface extraction; Interactive visualization; Large scale time varying data

Indexed keywords

CONFIGURABLE; DATA SETS; DATA-PREFETCHING; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; ISO SURFACE; ISOSURFACE EXTRACTION; LATTICE DATA STRUCTURES; LOAD-BALANCING; MEMORY MANAGEMENT; PARALLEL EXECUTIONS; PREFETCHES; RENDERING PERFORMANCE; TIME-VARYING DATA; VOLUME DATA; VOLUME DATA SETS;

CORE LEVELS; DATA STRUCTURES; VISUALIZATION;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84857024038     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.910926     Document Type: Conference Paper

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