Scalable distributed visualization using off-the-shelf components

Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Symposium on Parallel Visualization and Graphics, PVGS 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 55-60

  Heirich, Alan ^a   Moll, Laurent ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beowulf; Cluster; Fat tree; FPGA; Gigabit; OpenGL; Visualization

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); FLOW VISUALIZATION; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

BEOWULF; CLUSTER; FAT TREES; GIGABIT; OPENGL;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84963552278     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/328712.319337     Document Type: Conference Paper

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