Title :
A PC cluster system for simultaneous interactive volumetric modeling and visualization
Author :
Muraki, Shigeru ; Lum, Eric B. ; Ma, Kwan-Liu ; Ogata, Masato ; Liu, Xuezhen
Author_Institution :
AIST, Japan
Abstract :
A number of problems are well suited for volumetric representation for both simulation and storage, however, the large amount of data that needs to be processed and rendered with these volumes makes interactive manipulation extremely challenging. We present a scalable PC cluster system (VG cluster) designed specifically to enable simultaneous volumetric computation and visualization, using compositing hardware devices and the latest PC graphics accelerators. We demonstrate the flexibility and performance of this system with several different applications that include reaction-diffusion simulation, volumetric image processing, and vector field visualization. We also discuss how to improve the visual computing performance of this system with some load balancing techniques.
Keywords :
computer graphic equipment; data visualisation; parallel processing; reaction-diffusion systems; rendering (computer graphics); workstation clusters; PC cluster system; graphics hardware; interactive volumetric modeling; load balancing technique; parallel volume rendering; reaction-diffusion simulation; visual computing; volume graphics; volume visualization; volumetric image processing; Application software; Computational modeling; Computer graphics; Computer simulation; Data visualization; Hardware; Image processing; Large-scale systems; Load management; Rendering (computer graphics);
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
DOI :
10.1109/PVGS.2003.1249047
