Accelerated volume rendering and tomographic reconstruction using texture mapping hardware
VVS '94 Proceedings of the 1994 symposium on Volume visualization
Application-controlled demand paging for out-of-core visualization
VIS '97 Proceedings of the 8th conference on Visualization '97
A multi-threaded streaming pipeline architecture for large structured data sets
VIS '99 Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '99: celebrating ten years
Multiresolution techniques for interactive texture-based volume visualization
VIS '99 Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '99: celebrating ten years
Adaptive, multiresolution visualization of large data sets using a distributed memory octree
SC '99 Proceedings of the 1999 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
HWWS '00 Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS workshop on Graphics hardware
Level-of-detail volume rendering via 3D textures
VVS '00 Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE symposium on Volume visualization
Using high-speed WANs and network data caches to enable remote and distributed visualization
Proceedings of the 2000 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '00
External memory algorithms and data structures: dealing with massive data
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Optimizing noncontiguous accesses in MPI – IO
Parallel Computing
An efficient system for collaboration in tele-immersive environments
EGPGV '02 Proceedings of the Fourth Eurographics Workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
Interactive rendering of large volume data sets
Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '02
Semotus Visum: a flexible remote visualization framework
Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '02
Interactive translucent volume rendering and procedural modeling
Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '02
Data management and transfer in high-performance computational grid environments
Parallel Computing - Parallel data-intensive algorithms and applications
IEEE Internet Computing
The SDSC storage resource broker
CASCON '98 Proceedings of the 1998 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
FOCS '99 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
Accelerating Volume Reconstruction With 3D Texture Hardware
Accelerating Volume Reconstruction With 3D Texture Hardware
High-resolution remote rendering of large datasets in a collaborative environment
Future Generation Computer Systems - iGrid 2002
Parallel netCDF: A High-Performance Scientific I/O Interface
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Interactive remote large-scale data visualization via prioritized multi-resolution streaming
Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Ultrascale Visualization
A high-quality low-delay remote rendering system for 3D video
Proceedings of the international conference on Multimedia
SkuareView: client-server framework for accessing extremely large radio astronomy image data.
Proceedings of the 2012 workshop on High-Performance Computing for Astronomy Date
Multi-layered image caching for distributed rendering of large multiresolution datasets
EG PGV'06 Proceedings of the 6th Eurographics conference on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
Stereo pseudo 3D rendering for web-based display of scientific volumetric data
SPBG'08 Proceedings of the Fifth Eurographics / IEEE VGTC conference on Point-Based Graphics
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Datasets of tens of gigabytes are becoming common in computational and experimental science. This development is driven by advances in imaging technology, producing detectors with growing resolutions, as well as availability of cheap processing power and memory capacity in commodity-based computing clusters. In this article we describe the design of a visualization system that allows scientists to interactively explore large remote data sets in an efficient and flexible way. The system is broadly applicable and currently used by medical scientists conducting an osteoporosis research project. Human vertebral bodies are scanned using a high resolution micro-CT scanner producing scans of roughly 8 GB size each. All participating research groups require access to the centrally stored data. Due to the rich internal bone structure, scientists need to interactively explore the full dataset at coarse levels, as well as visualize subvolumes of interest at the highest resolution. Our solution is based on HDF5 and GridFTP. When accessing data remotely, the HDF5 data processing pipeline is modified to support efficient retrieval of subvolumes. We reduce the overall latency and optimize throughput by executing high-level operations on the remote side. The GridFTP protocol is used to pass the HDF5 requests to a customized server. The approach takes full advantage of local graphics hardware for rendering. Interactive visualization is accomplished using a background thread to access the datasets stored in a multi-resolution format. A hierarchical volume renderer provides seamless integration of high resolution details with low resolution overviews.