VIRACOCHA: An Efficient Parallelization Framework for Large-Scale CFD Post-Processing in Virtual Environments

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE SC 2004 Conference: Bridging Communities

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Gerndt, Andrea ^a   Hentschel, Bernd ^a   Wolter, Marc ^a   Kuhlen, Torsten ^a   Bischof, Christian ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Caching; CFD Post Processing; Data Streaming; Multi Resolution; Parallelization; Prefetching; Virtual Reality

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; DATA VISUALIZATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

CACHING; CFD POST-PROCESSING; DATA STREAMING; PARALLELIZATIONS; PREFETCHING;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84934300656     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SC.2004.66     Document Type: Conference Paper

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