A Sorting Classification of Parallel Rendering
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Level-of-detail volume rendering via 3D textures
VVS '00 Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE symposium on Volume visualization
Real-time decompression and visualization of animated volume data
Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '01
Interactive rendering of large volume data sets
Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '02
A Hardware-Assisted Scalable Solution for Interactive Volume Rendering of Time-Varying Data
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
An interactive volume visualization system for transient flow analysis
VG '03 Proceedings of the 2003 Eurographics/IEEE TVCG Workshop on Volume graphics
Parallel Volume Rendering Using PC Graphics Hardware
PG '01 Proceedings of the 9th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications
SLIC: Scheduled Linear Image Compositing for Parallel Volume Rendering
PVG '03 Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Large-Data Visualization and Graphics
Real-Time Volume Rendering of Time-Varying Data Using a Fragment-Shader Compression Approach
PVG '03 Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Large-Data Visualization and Graphics
Parallel multiresolution volume rendering of large data sets with error-guided load balancing
EG PGV'04 Proceedings of the 5th Eurographics conference on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
Hierarchical visualization and compression of large volume datasets using GPU clusters
EG PGV'04 Proceedings of the 5th Eurographics conference on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
Two-stage compression for fast volume rendering of time-varying scalar data
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques in Australasia and Southeast Asia
View compensated compression of volume rendered images for remote visualization
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Enabling the interactive display of large medical volume datasets by multiresolution bricking
The Journal of Supercomputing
Challenges of medical image processing
Computer Science - Research and Development
Parallel volume rendering implementation on graphics cards using CUDA
Facing the multicore-challenge
Parallel volume rendering implementation on graphics cards using CUDA
Facing the multicore-challenge
Interactive exploration of large data in hybrid visualization environments
EGVE'07 Proceedings of the 13th Eurographics conference on Virtual Environments
EG PGV'09 Proceedings of the 9th Eurographics conference on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
Streaming-enabled parallel dataflow architecture for multicore systems
EuroVis'10 Proceedings of the 12th Eurographics / IEEE - VGTC conference on Visualization
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We describe a system for the texture-based direct volume visualization of large data sets on a PC cluster equipped with GPUs. The data is partitioned into volume bricks in object space, and the intermediate images are combined to a final picture in a sort-last approach. Hierarchical wavelet compression is applied to increase the effective size of volumes that can be handled. An adaptive rendering mechanism takes into account the viewing parameters and the properties of the data set to adjust the texture resolution and number of slices. We discuss the specific issues of this adaptive and hierarchical approach in the context of a distributed memory architecture and present corresponding solutions. Furthermore, our compositing scheme takes into account the footprints of volume bricks to minimize the costs for reading from framebuffer, network communication, and blending. A detailed performance analysis is provided for several network, CPU, and GPU architectures-and scaling characteristics of the parallel system are discussed. For example, our tests on a eight-node AMD64 cluster with InfiniBand show a rendering speed of 6 frames per second for a 2048x1024x1878 data set on a 1024^2 viewport.