Case Study of Multithreaded In-core Isosurface Extraction Algorithms

Zhang, Huijuan; Newman, Timothy S.; Zhang, Xiang

Case Study of Multithreaded In-core Isosurface Extraction Algorithms

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2004

Authors

Zhang, Huijuan
Newman, Timothy S.
Zhang, Xiang

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

A comparative, empirical study of the computational performance of multithreading strategies for Marching Cubes isosurface extraction is presented. Several representative data-centric strategies are considered. Focus is on in-core computation that can be performed on desktop (single- or dual-CPU) computers. The study's empirical results are analyzed on the metrics of initialization overhead, individual surface extraction time, and total run time. In addition, an analysis of cache behavior and memory storage requirements is presented.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/EGPGV/EGPGV04/083-092
,
booktitle = {Eurographics Workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
},
editor = {Dirk Bartz and Bruno Raffin and Han-Wei Shen
},
title = {{Case Study of Multithreaded In-core Isosurface Extraction Algorithms
}},
author = {Zhang, Huijuan and 
Newman, Timothy S. and 
Zhang, Xiang
},
year = {2004
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-348X
},
ISBN = {3-905673-11-8
},
DOI = {/10.2312/EGPGV/EGPGV04/083-092
}
}