Parallel performance measures for volume ray casting

Claudio T. Silva; Arie E. Kaufman

Parallel performance measures for volume ray casting

Claudio T. Silva
, Arie E. Kaufman

Computer Science

Stony Brook University

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Abstract

We describe a technique for achieving fast volume ray casting on parallel machines, using a load balancing scheme and an efficient pipelined approach to compositing. We propose a new model for measuring the amount of work one needs to perform in order to render a given volume, and use this model to obtain a better load balancing scheme for distributed memory machines. We also discuss in detail the design trade-offs of our technique. In order to validate our model we have implemented it on the Intel iPSC/860 and the Intel Paragon, and conducted a detailed performance analysis.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	196-203
Number of pages	8
Journal	Proceedings Visualization
State	Published - 1994
Event	Proceedings of the 1994 IEEE Visualization Conference - Washington, DC, USA Duration: Oct 17 1994 → Oct 21 1994

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