Render Brokering for Volume Visualization

  • Authors:
  • T. Todd Elvins

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Parallel & Distributed Technology: Systems & Technology
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Volumetric data rendering is CPU- and memory-intensive. Technological innovations in data acquisition and data generation will probably continue to grow at a rate such that the data produced are orders of magnitude too big to be handled, analyzed, or projected (rendered) on an affordable desktop computer. In addressing these demands, the San Diego Supercomputer Center Networked Volume Renderer efficiently manages and provides access to several direct-volume-rendering algorithms running on advanced-computing rendering engines. SDSC_NetV's most innovative aspects are the easy-to-use graphical interface, which hides all notion of a network, and the server manager, which assigns advanced computing servers based on the user's rendering request and on the set of currently available resources. The server manager, acting as a render broker for big rendering jobs, works in unison with the graphical interface to give the user several of the most effective features from turnkey, application-builder, and advanced-architecture volume-rendering systems.