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The following presentations were delivered at the SCO6 BOF session. Please feel free to download and review these, along with any archived video files that accompany them.

» Visualization Using Linux Clusters - BOF Overview and Wrap-up (1.9 Mb PPT)
Glenn Lupton, Technical Director
HPC Visualization, Hewlett-Packard
» Parallel Visualization with COVISE/
OpenCOVER
(2.1 Mb, PPT)
Florian Niebling, Scientific Assistant at High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), Visualization Department
  • The Role of HLRS
  • Visualization System COVISE/OpenCover
  • Visualization Data
  • Testbed for Parallel Rendering in OpenCover
  • Outlook
» General Purpose Computation and Visualization on a GPU Cluster  (3.5 Mb PPT)
Zhe Fan, Ph.D. candidate in CS at Stony Brook University
  • Visual Computing Cluster
  • Background – GPU, GPGPU
  • Motivations – Parallel cluster GPGPU, computation and visualization on one system
  • Discussions of past and current work
    • parallel programming toolkit for GPU clusters
    • wide ranges of applications
    • distributed and shared memory models
  • Sample results
  • Videos (29.6 Mb ZIP archive, 4 files)
» Parallel Compositing Library (1.5 Mb PPT)
Steve Greenwood, HPC Visualization Engineer, Hewlett-Packard
  • What is the parallel compositing library?
  • Background of API and specification
  • Concepts and operation
  • Implementation availability
» Benchmarking Parallel Volume Rendering Algorithms  (3.7 Mb PPT)
Balazs Domonkos, Ph.D. student/developer, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Control Engineering and Information Technology
  • Parallelization of rendering algorithms
  • ParCompMark framework
  • Parallel volume visualization examples
    • Isosurface ray casting
    • Translucent volume rendering
  • Summary
  • Videos (18.6 Mb ZIP archive) **

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» Parallel Visualization on Linux Clusters using AVS/Express (Slides not yet availalable)
W.T. Hewitt, Director of Research Computing, Manchester Computing, University of Manchester
[AVS web site]
  • AVS/Express Visualization Application Development Tool
  • Multipipe Edition (MPE)
  • Parallel Support Toolkit (PST)
  • MPE & PST Integration – Rendering Support
  • Distributed Data Rendering (DDR)
   
   
   
 
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