Next-generation visual supercomputing using PC clusters with volume graphics hardware devices

Authors:
Shigeru Muraki;Masato Ogata;Kwan-Liu Ma;Kenji Koshizuka;Kagenori Kajihara;Xuezhen Liu;Yasutada Nagano;Kazuro Shimokawa
Affiliations:
The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan;Mitsubishi Precision Co., Ltd., Japan;University of California, Davis;Mitsubishi Precision Co., Ltd., Japan;Mitsubishi Precision Co., Ltd., Japan;Mitsubishi Precision Co., Ltd., Japan;Mitsubishi Precision Co., Ltd., Japan;The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2001 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Year:
2001

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Abstract

To seek a low-cost, extensible solution for the large-scale data visualization problem, a visual computing system is designed as a result of a collaboration between industry and government research laboratories in Japan, also with participation by researchers in U.S. This scalable system is a commodity PC cluster equipped with the VolumePro 500 volume graphics cards and a specially designed image compositing hardware. Our performance study shows such a system is capable of interactive rendering 5123 and 10243 volume data and highly scalable. In particular, with such a system, simulation and visualization can be performed concurrently which allows scientists to monitor and tune their simulations on the fly. In this paper, both the system and hardware designs are presented.