Towards a Scalable Architecture for Real-Time Volume Rendering

Hanspeter Pfister; Arie Kaufman; Frank Wessels

Towards a Scalable Architecture for Real-Time Volume Rendering

Hanspeter Pfister
, Arie Kaufman
, Frank Wessels

Computer Science

Stony Brook University

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Abstract

In this paper we present our research efforts towards a scalable volume rendering architecture for the real-time visualization of dynamically changing high-resolution datasets. Using a linearly skewed memory interleaving we were able to develop a parallel dataflow model that leads to local, fixed-bandwidth interconnections between processing elements. This parallel dataflow model differs from previous work in that it requires no global communication of data except at the pixel level. Using this dataflow model we are developing Cube-4, an architecture that is scalable to very high performances and allows for modular and extensible hardware implementations.

Original language	English
Pages	123-130
Number of pages	8
State	Published - 1995
Event	10th Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware, EGGH 1995 - Maastricht, Netherlands Duration: Aug 28 1995 → Aug 29 1995

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Conference	10th Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware, EGGH 1995
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Maastricht
Period	08/28/95 → 08/29/95

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