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A Parallel Volume Splatting Algorithm Based on PC-Clusters

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Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2004 (ICCSA 2004)

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Splatting is a widely used object-order volume rendering algorithm. By using a hybrid data-space and image-space partitioning scheme, a parallel volume Splatting algorithm based on PC-clusters is presented in this paper. Experiment results demonstrate that the proposed method can gain high rendering speed and excellent speedups on commercial PC-clusters.

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  1. IBM Computer Technology Center, Department of Computer Science, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, P.R.China

    Jiawan Zhang, Jizhou Sun, Yi Zhang, Qianqian Han & Zhou Jin

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  1. Department of Chemistry, University of Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto, 8, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Antonio Laganá

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., T2N 1N4, Calgary AB, Canada

    Marina L. Gavrilova

  3. William Norris Professor, Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, USA

    Vipin Kumar

  4. School of Computing, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea

    Youngsong Mun

  5. OptimaNumerics Ltd., Cathedral House, 23-31 Waring Street, BT1 2DX, Belfast, UK

    C. J. Kenneth Tan

  6. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, via Vanvitelli, 1, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

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Zhang, J., Sun, J., Zhang, Y., Han, Q., Jin, Z. (2004). A Parallel Volume Splatting Algorithm Based on PC-Clusters. In: Laganá, A., Gavrilova, M.L., Kumar, V., Mun, Y., Tan, C.J.K., Gervasi, O. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2004. ICCSA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3044. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24709-8_29

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