Paper Info
Title
Multi-GPU sort-last volume visualization
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.2312/EGPGV/EGPGV08/001-008
EGPGV
Keywords
Field
DocType
commodity machine,high performance sort-last volume,single cpu,single standard pc,inexpensive off-the-shelf sort-last volume,experimental study,mid-sized pc cluster,multi-gpu sort-last volume visualization,extensive experiment,classical sort-last visualization system,visualization architecture
Architecture,Volume visualization,Visualization,Computer science,sort,Parallel computing,Gigabit Ethernet
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
15
0.70
14
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stéphane Marchesin1402.42
Catherine Mongenet218016.00
Jean-michel Dischler338634.69