A Parallel visualization pipeline for terascale earthquake simulations

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

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Yu, Hongfeng ^a   Ma, Kwan Liu ^a   Welling, Joel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

High performance computing; Massively parallel supercomputing; MPI; Parallel I O; Parallel rendering; Scientific visualization; Time varying data; Vector field visualization; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION; DIGITAL STORAGE; EARTHQUAKES; PIPELINES; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; MASSIVELY PARALLEL SUPERCOMPUTING; MPI; PARALLEL I/O; PARALLEL RENDERING; TIME-VARYING DATA; VECTOR FIELD VISUALIZATIONS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84934343788     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SC.2004.6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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