From cluster to wall with VTK

Author

Moreland, Kenneth ; Thompson, David

Author_Institution

Sandia Nat. Labs., USA

fYear

2003

fDate

21-21 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

25

Lastpage

31

Abstract

We describe a new set of parallel rendering components for VTK, the visualization toolkit. The parallel rendering units allow for the rendering of vast quantities of geometry with a focus on cluster computers. Furthermore, the geometry may be displayed on tiled displays at full or reduced resolution. We demonstrate an interactive VTK application processing an isosurface consisting of nearly half a billion triangles and displaying on a power wall with a total resolution of 63 million pixels. We also demonstrate an interactive VTK application displaying the same geometry on a desktop connected to the cluster via a TCP/IP socket over 100BASE-T Ethernet.

Keywords

computational geometry; data visualisation; image resolution; parallel processing; rendering (computer graphics); workstation clusters; 100BASE-T Ethernet; PC cluster; TCP/IP socket; VTK; chromium; computational geometry; interactive VTK application; isosurface processing; parallel rendering component; resolution; tiled display; visualization toolkit; Application software; Chromium; Computational modeling; Computer displays; Concurrent computing; Geometry; Predictive models; Rendering (computer graphics); User interfaces; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

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

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8122-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVGS.2003.1249039

Filename

1249039