Volume rendering on a distributed memory parallel computer

  • Authors:
  • T. Todd Elvins

  • Affiliations:
  • San Diego Supercomputer Center, Advanced Scientific Visualization Laboratory, San Diego CA

  • Venue:
  • VIS '92 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Visualization '92
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

Volume rendering ideally produces high-quality images at interactive rates. High CPU and memory requirements make this goal unreachable with current off-the-shelf technology. Exploiting highly parallel computers is one way that future systems may approach acceptable speeds. This paper discusses the adaptation of a known volume rendering algorithm to a new commercially available distributed memory MIMD parallel architecture.