Automatic Distribution of Rendering Workloads in a Grid Enabled Collaborative Visualization Environment

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

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Grimstead, Ian J ^a   Avis, Nick J ^a   Walker, David W ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Design; Experimentation; Grid Web services; Heterogeneous systems; Performance; Visualization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DESIGN; DISPLAY DEVICES; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; VISUALIZATION;

COLLABORATIVE VISUALIZATION; EXPERIMENTATION; GRID/WEB SERVICES; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; RESOURCE AWARE VISUALIZATION ENVIRONMENTS; SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS; VISUALIZATION ENVIRONMENT;

RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS);

EID: 84934325954     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SC.2004.13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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