Title :
Distributed visualization using workstations, supercomputers, and high speed networks
Author :
Robertson, David W. ; Jacobson, Van L. ; Johnston, William E. ; Loken, Stewart C. ; Theil, Edward H. ; Tierney, B.L.
Author_Institution :
Lawrence Berkeley Lab., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
A collaboration designed to demonstrate the possibilities of access to supercomputers via the high-speed wide-area networks in order to carry out sophisticated, interactive visualization on local workstations is described. The test case was visualization of 3D magnetic resonance imaging data, with a Vray performing surface reconstruction to generate a set of triangles. The resulting geometric data was sent to a local workstation to be rendered, with minor enhancements to current network protocols enabling effective utilization of the 45 Mb bandwidth of a T3-based network
Keywords :
biomedical NMR; computer graphics; interactive systems; medical computing; protocols; 3D magnetic resonance imaging data; T3-based network; Vray; distributed visualisation; high speed networks; interactive visualization; network protocols; supercomputers; surface reconstruction; wide-area networks; workstations; Collaborative work; Data visualization; Image reconstruction; Magnetic resonance imaging; Performance evaluation; Protocols; Supercomputers; Surface reconstruction; Testing; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Visualization, 1991. Visualization '91, Proceedings., IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2245-8
DOI :
10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175834
