A PC cluster system for simultaneous interactive volumetric modeling and visualization

PVG 2003, Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Large-Data Visualization and Graphics 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 95-102

  Muraki, S ^a   Lum, E B ^b   Ma, K L ^b   Ogata, M ^c   Liu, X ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c R and D Department   (Japan)

Author keywords

Application software; Computational modeling; Computer graphics; Computer simulation; Data visualization; Hardware; Image processing; Large scale systems; Load management; Rendering (computer graphics)

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA VISUALIZATION; DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTRIC LOAD MANAGEMENT; HARDWARE; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; INTERACTIVE MANIPULATION; LOAD BALANCING TECHNIQUE; PC CLUSTER SYSTEM; REACTION-DIFFUSION SIMULATION; VECTOR FIELD VISUALIZATIONS; VOLUMETRIC MODELING; VOLUMETRIC REPRESENTATION;

RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS);

EID: 84947291620     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVGS.2003.1249047     Document Type: Conference Paper

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