Title :
GPU and CPU cooperation parallel visualisation for large seismic data
Author :
Xie, Kan ; Wu, Po-Han ; Yang, Songping
Author_Institution :
Electron. Inf. Coll., Yangtze River Univ., Jingzhou, China
Abstract :
A parallel visualisation technique for large seismic data based on a graphics processing unit (GPU) and CPU cooperation is presented. The 3D texture mapping capability commonly available in modern GPUs is employed as a core rendering engine and advantage is taken of combinations of GPU-based parallel volume visualisation and visibility tests to accelerate the whole rendering process. Experimental results show that the method achieves real-time performance for very large seismic data (10GB) on standard PC hardware.
Keywords :
coprocessors; data visualisation; rendering (computer graphics); 3D texture mapping; GPU-CPU cooperation; core rendering engine; graphics processing unit; parallel visualisation; seismic data visualization;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el.2010.1242