Performance Modeling of vl3 Volume Rendering on GPU-Based Clusters

Rizzi, Silvio; Hereld, Mark; Insley, Joseph; Papka, Michael E.; Uram, Thomas; Vishwanath, Venkatram

Performance Modeling of vl3 Volume Rendering on GPU-Based Clusters

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Date

2014

Authors

Rizzi, Silvio
Hereld, Mark
Insley, Joseph
Papka, Michael E.
Uram, Thomas
Vishwanath, Venkatram

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

This paper presents an analytical model for parallel volume rendering of large datasets using GPU-based clusters. The model is focused on the parallel volume rendering and compositing stages and predicts their performance requiring only a few input parameters. We also present vl3, a novel parallel volume rendering framework for visualization of large datasets. Its performance is evaluated on a GPU-based cluster, weak and strong scaling are studied, and model predictions are validated with experimental results on up to 128 GPUs.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/pgv.20141086
https::/diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/pgv.20141086.065-072
,
booktitle = {Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
},
editor = {Margarita Amor and Markus Hadwiger
},
title = {{Performance Modeling of vl3 Volume Rendering on GPU-Based Clusters
}},
author = {Rizzi, Silvio and 
Hereld, Mark and 
Insley, Joseph and 
Papka, Michael E. and 
Uram, Thomas and 
Vishwanath, Venkatram
},
year = {2014
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-348X
},
ISBN = {978-3-905674-59-0
},
DOI = {/10.2312/pgv.20141086
https://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/pgv.20141086.065-072
}
}