Progressive retrieval and hierarchical visualization of large remote data

Scalable Computing

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 57-66

  Hege, Hans Christian ^a   Hutanu, Andrei ^a   Kahler, Ralf ^a   Merzky, André ^a   Radke, Thomas ^b   Seidel, Edward ^b   Ullmer, Brygg ^a  

^a ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; PIPELINES; STAGES; SUPERCOMPUTERS; VISUALIZATION;

FILTERING OPERATIONS; LARGE SCALE SCIENTIFIC SIMULATIONS; NETWORK TRANSACTIONS; PROCESSING CAPABILITY; PROGRESSIVE RETRIEVAL; SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION; VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION; VISUALIZATION PIPELINE;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 85071643318     PISSN: 18951767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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