Parallel rendering of 3D AMR data on the SGI/Cray T3E

Proceedings - Frontiers 1999, 7th Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 138-145

  Ma, Kwan Liu ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA VISUALIZATION; DIGITAL STORAGE; MESH GENERATION; VISUALIZATION;

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; ENGINEERING PROBLEMS; GRAPHICS WORKSTATIONS; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; PARALLEL RENDERING; PARALLEL VISUALIZATION; STORAGE REQUIREMENTS; VISUALIZATION TOOLS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84877039256     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FMPC.1999.750593     Document Type: Conference Paper

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