Streaming Model Based Volume Ray Casting Implementation for Cell Broadband Engine

Kim, Jusub; JaJa, Joseph

Streaming Model Based Volume Ray Casting Implementation for Cell Broadband Engine

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Date

2008

Authors

Kim, Jusub
JaJa, Joseph

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an experimental study of an inexpensive off-the-shelf sort-last volume visualization architecture based upon multiple GPUs and a single CPU. We show how to efficiently make use of this architecture to achieve high performance sort-last volume visualization of large datasets. We analyze the bottlenecks of this architecture.We compare this architecture to a classical sort-last visualization system using a cluster of commodity machines interconnected by a gigabit Ethernet network. Based on extensive experiments, we show that this solution competes very well with a mid-sized PC cluster, while it significantly improves performance compared to a single standard PC.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/EGPGV/EGPGV08/009-016
,
booktitle = {Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
},
editor = {Jean M. Favre and Kwan-Liu Ma
},
title = {{Streaming Model Based Volume Ray Casting Implementation for Cell Broadband Engine
}},
author = {Kim, Jusub and 
JaJa, Joseph
},
year = {2008
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-348X
},
ISBN = {978-3-905674-04-0
},
DOI = {/10.2312/EGPGV/EGPGV08/009-016
}
}