Display of Surfaces from Volume Data
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Efficient ray tracing of volume data
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
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
Communication Costs for Parallel Volume-Rendering Algorithms
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Extracting feature lines from 3D unstructured grids
VIS '97 Proceedings of the 8th conference on Visualization '97
High performance visualization of time-varying volume data over a wide-area network status
Proceedings of the 2000 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
SIGGRAPH '88 Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Optical Models for Direct Volume Rendering
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Image Composition Schemes for Sort-Last Polygon Rendering on 2D Mesh Multicomputers
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Interactive Ray Tracing for Volume Visualization
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Parallel Volume Rendering Using Binary-Swap Compositing
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
MPI-2: Extending the Message-Passing Interface
Euro-Par '96 Proceedings of the Second International Euro-Par Conference on Parallel Processing - Volume I
Parallel Rendering of 3D AMR Data on the SGI/Cray T3E
FRONTIERS '99 Proceedings of the The 7th Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation
SIGGRAPH '84 Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
A Parallel Visualization Pipeline for Terascale Earthquake Simulations
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
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
A study of I/O methods for parallel visualization of large-scale data
Parallel Computing - Parallel graphics and visualization
From mesh generation to scientific visualization: an end-to-end approach to parallel supercomputing
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
PVFS: a parallel file system for linux clusters
ALS'00 Proceedings of the 4th annual Linux Showcase & Conference - Volume 4
Time Dependent Processing in a Parallel Pipeline Architecture
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Dynamic load balancing for parallel volume rendering
EG PGV'06 Proceedings of the 6th Eurographics conference on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
A scalable, hybrid scheme for volume rendering massive data sets
EG PGV'06 Proceedings of the 6th Eurographics conference on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
Terascale data organization for discovering multivariate climatic trends
Proceedings of the Conference on High Performance Computing Networking, Storage and Analysis
Multi-GPU volume rendering using MapReduce
Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
Large data visualization on distributed memory multi-GPU clusters
Proceedings of the Conference on High Performance Graphics
Examples of in transit visualization
Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Petascal data analytics: challenges and opportunities
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
Load balancing utilizing data redundancy in distributed volume rendering
EG PGV'11 Proceedings of the 11th Eurographics conference on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
Parallel in situ coupling of simulation with a fully featured visualization system
EG PGV'11 Proceedings of the 11th Eurographics conference on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
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Parallel volume rendering is implemented and tested on an IBM Blue Gene distributed-memory parallel architecture. The goal of studying the cost of parallel rendering on a new class of supercomputers such as the Blue Gene/P is not necessarily to achieve real-time rendering rates. It is to identify and understand the extent of bottlenecks and interactions between various components that affect the design of future visualization solutions on these machines, solutions that may offer alternatives to hardware-accelerated volume rendering, for example, when large volumes, large image sizes, and very high quality results are dictated by peta- and exascale data. As a step in that direction, this study presents data from experiments under a number of conditions, including dataset size, number of processors, low- and high-quality rendering, offline storage of results, and streaming of images for remote display. Performance is divided into three main sections of the algorithm: disk I/O, rendering, and compositing. The dynamic balance among these tasks varies with the number of processors and other conditions. Lessons learned from the work include understanding the balance between parallel I/O, computation, and communication within the context of visualization on supercomputers; recommendations for tuning and optimization; and opportunities for further scaling. Extrapolating these results to very large data and image sizes suggests that a distributed-memory high-performance computing architecture such as the Blue Gene is a viable platform for some types of visualization at very large scales.