Segmented ray casting for data parallel volume rendering
PRS '93 Proceedings of the 1993 symposium on Parallel rendering
A data distributed, parallel algorithm for ray-traced volume rendering
PRS '93 Proceedings of the 1993 symposium on Parallel rendering
Parallel volume-rendering algorithm performance on mesh-connected multicomputers
PRS '93 Proceedings of the 1993 symposium on Parallel rendering
A Sorting Classification of Parallel Rendering
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Communication Costs for Parallel Volume-Rendering Algorithms
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Lightning-2: a high-performance display subsystem for PC clusters
Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Scalable interactive volume rendering using off-the-shelf components
PVG '01 Proceedings of the IEEE 2001 symposium on parallel and large-data visualization and graphics
Image Composition Schemes for Sort-Last Polygon Rendering on 2D Mesh Multicomputers
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Parallel Volume Rendering Using Binary-Swap Compositing
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Scalable Rendering on PC Clusters
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
ICPP '99 Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Parallel Processing
Parallel Computing - Special issue: Parallel and distributed scientific and engineering computing
VV '04 Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Symposium on Volume Visualization and Graphics
SLIC: Scheduled Linear Image Compositing for Parallel Volume Rendering
PVG '03 Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Large-Data Visualization and Graphics
From mesh generation to scientific visualization: an end-to-end approach to parallel supercomputing
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Remote runtime steering of integrated terascale simulation and visualization
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
NPU-Based Image Compositing in a Distributed Visualization System
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Hierarchical visualization and compression of large volume datasets using GPU clusters
EG PGV'04 Proceedings of the 5th Eurographics conference on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
Direct send compositing for parallel sort-last rendering
EG PGV'07 Proceedings of the 7th Eurographics conference on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
A configurable algorithm for parallel image-compositing applications
Proceedings of the Conference on High Performance Computing Networking, Storage and Analysis
In situ visualization at extreme scale: challenges and opportunities
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Multi-GPU volume rendering using MapReduce
Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
Efficient pipelining parallel methods for image compositing in sort-last rendering
NPC'10 Proceedings of the 2010 IFIP international conference on Network and parallel computing
Parallel volume rendering implementation on graphics cards using CUDA
Facing the multicore-challenge
Parallel volume rendering implementation on graphics cards using CUDA
Facing the multicore-challenge
An image compositing solution at scale
Proceedings of 2011 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
EG PGV'09 Proceedings of the 9th Eurographics conference on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
Cross-node occlusion in sort-last volume rendering
EG PGV'10 Proceedings of the 10th Eurographics conference on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
Accelerating and benchmarking radix-k image compositing at large scale
EG PGV'10 Proceedings of the 10th Eurographics conference on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
Fast compositing for cluster-parallel rendering
EG PGV'10 Proceedings of the 10th Eurographics conference on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
Revisiting parallel rendering for shared memory machines
EG PGV'11 Proceedings of the 11th Eurographics conference on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
A preview and exploratory technique for large-scale scientific simulations
EG PGV'11 Proceedings of the 11th Eurographics conference on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
An investigation into the performance of reduction algorithms under load imbalance
Euro-Par'12 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Parallel Processing
SC '13 Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
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The ever-increasing amounts of simulation data produced by scientists demand high-end parallel visualization capability. However, image compositing, which requires interprocessor communication, is often the bottleneck stage for parallel rendering of large volume data sets. Existing image compositing solutions either incur a large number of messages exchanged among processors (such as the direct send method), or limit the number of processors that can be effectively utilized (such as the binary swap method). We introduce a new image compositing algorithm, called 2-3 swap, which combines the flexibility of the direct send method and the optimality of the binary swap method. The 2-3 swap algorithm allows an arbitrary number of processors to be used for compositing, and fully utilizes all participating processors throughout the course of the compositing. We experiment with this image compositing solution on a supercomputer with thousands of processors, and demonstrate its great flexibility as well as scalability.