A parallel pipelined renderer for time-varying volume data

3rd International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms, and Networks, I-SPAN 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 9-15

  Chiueh, Tzi Cier ^a   Ma, Kwan Liu ^b  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES;

DISTRIBUTED-MEMORY PARALLEL COMPUTERS; OPTIMAL PARTITIONING; OVERALL EXECUTION; RENDERING APPROACH; RENDERING PERFORMANCE; RESOURCE UTILIZATIONS; TIME-VARYING VOLUME DATA; VOLUME DATA SETS;

PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84862961852     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISPAN.1997.645046     Document Type: Conference Paper

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