Design of a parallel accelerator for volume rendering

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1900, Issue , 2000, Pages 1095-1104

  Schmidt, Bertil ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SYSTOLIC ARRAYS;

ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPTS; FRAMES PER SECONDS; INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGIES; LOW COSTS; MASSIVELY PARALLELS; PARALLEL ACCELERATORS; PARALLEL COMPUTER; PROCESSING ELEMENTS;

VOLUME RENDERING;

EID: 84937410398     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44520-x_155     Document Type: Conference Paper

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