Segmented ray casting for data parallel volume rendering
PRS '93 Proceedings of the 1993 symposium on Parallel rendering
A Sorting Classification of Parallel Rendering
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Multiresolution techniques for interactive texture-based volume visualization
VIS '99 Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '99: celebrating ten years
Level-of-detail volume rendering via 3D textures
VVS '00 Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE symposium on Volume visualization
High-quality pre-integrated volume rendering using hardware-accelerated pixel shading
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Chromium: a stream-processing framework for interactive rendering on clusters
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Parallel Volume Rendering Using Binary-Swap Compositing
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Scalable Rendering on PC Clusters
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SLIC: Scheduled Linear Image Compositing for Parallel Volume Rendering
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Dynamic load balancing for parallel volume rendering
EG PGV'06 Proceedings of the 6th Eurographics conference on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
Optimized volume raycasting for graphics-hardware-based cluster systems
EG PGV'06 Proceedings of the 6th Eurographics conference on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
Sorted pipeline image composition
EG PGV'06 Proceedings of the 6th Eurographics conference on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
Large data visualization on distributed memory multi-GPU clusters
Proceedings of the Conference on High Performance Graphics
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Distributed visualization of complex black oil reservoir models
EG PGV'09 Proceedings of the 9th Eurographics conference on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
Multi-frame rate volume rendering
EG PGV'10 Proceedings of the 10th Eurographics conference on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
Streaming-enabled parallel dataflow architecture for multicore systems
EuroVis'10 Proceedings of the 12th Eurographics / IEEE - VGTC conference on Visualization
NUMA-aware image compositing on multi-GPU platform
The Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics
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In this paper, we propose an experimental study of an inexpensive off-the-shelf sort-last volume visualization architecture based upon multiple GPUs and a single CPU. We show how to efficiently make use of this architecture to achieve high performance sort-last volume visualization of large datasets. We analyze the bottlenecks of this architecture.We compare this architecture to a classical sort-last visualization system using a cluster of commodity machines interconnected by a gigabit Ethernet network. Based on extensive experiments, we show that this solution competes very well with a mid-sized PC cluster, while it significantly improves performance compared to a single standard PC.