Parallel volume rendering on distributed-memory multiprocessor system

Wenping Chen; Junhui Deng; Zesheng Tang

doi:10.1117/12.477100

31 July 2002 Parallel volume rendering on distributed-memory multiprocessor system

Wenping Chen, Junhui Deng, Zesheng Tang

Proceedings Volume 4875, Second International Conference on Image and Graphics; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.477100
Event: Second International Conference on Image and Graphics, 2002, Hefei, China

Abstract

Several approaches have been proposed to visualize 3D volume data on multiprocessor systems in recent years. Most of these algorithms are tailored for special architectures and hard to immigrate to new architectures, such as Tsinghua High-Performance Cluster System (THPCS), a distributed-memory multiprocessor system. In this paper, a parallel volume rendering algorithm is presented for THPCS. To reduce the communication cost and the complexity of blending local intermediate images, a static subtask distribution strategy is proposed. Combined with the prediction for the subtask load and node performance, our strategy yields a good load balance. An asynchronous binary compositing method is adopted to provide flexibility for our algorithm. The experimental results demonstrate the efficiency and practicality of our algorithm. As a result, THPCS using our algorithm achieves performance ofrendering 512 x 512 color image for 128x 128x 197 volume within 1 second.

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Wenping Chen, Junhui Deng, and Zesheng Tang "Parallel volume rendering on distributed-memory multiprocessor system", Proc. SPIE 4875, Second International Conference on Image and Graphics, (31 July 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.477100

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