Massively parallel isosurface extraction

Authors:
Charles D. Hansen;Paul Hinker
Affiliations:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico;Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico
Venue:
VIS '92 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Visualization '92
Year:
1992

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Abstract

We describe experiences during the investigation of parallel methods for faster isosurface generation on SIMD machines. A sequential version of a well known isosurfacing algorithm is algorithmically enhanced for a particular type of SIMD architecture. The SIMD implementation takes full advantage of the data parallel nature of the algorithm and experiments have proven the implementation to be highly scalable. A parallel tool, which can generate 170K polygons / second, gives scientists the means to explore large 3D scalar or vector fields interactively.