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

fYear

1991

fDate

22-25 Oct 1991

Firstpage

379

Lastpage

382

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visualization, 1991. Visualization '91, Proceedings., IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2245-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175834

Filename

175834