ParVox: a parallel splatting volume rendering system for distributed visualization
PRS '97 Proceedings of the IEEE symposium on Parallel rendering
Parallel Polygon Rendering for Message-Passing Architectures
IEEE Parallel & Distributed Technology: Systems & Technology
DDDDRRaW: A Prototype Toolkit for Distributed Real-Time Rendering on Commodity Clusters
IPDPS '01 Proceedings of the 15th International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
Review: Large scale distributed visualization on computational Grids: A review
Computers and Electrical Engineering
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Applications which run on parallel supercomputers are often characterized by massive datasets. Converting these vast collections of numbers to visual form has proven to be a powerful aid to comprehension. For a variety of reasons, it may be described to provide this visual feedback at runtime. One way to accomplish this is to exploit the available parallelism to perform graphics operations in place. In order to do this, we need appropriate parallel rendering algorithms and library interfaces. This paper provides a tutorial introduction to some of the issues which arise in designing parallel graphics libraries and their underlying rendering algorithms. The focus is on polygon rendering for distributed memory message-passing systems. We illustrate our discussion with examples from PGL, a parallel graphics library which has been developed on the Intel family of parallel systems.