Hybrid Parallelization for Multi-View Visualization of Time-Dependent Simulation Data

Hentschel, Bernd; Wolter, Marc; Renze, Peter; Schröder, Wolfgang; Bischof, Christian; Kuhlen, Torsten

Hybrid Parallelization for Multi-View Visualization of Time-Dependent Simulation Data

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Date

2009

Authors

Hentschel, Bernd
Wolter, Marc
Renze, Peter
Schröder, Wolfgang
Bischof, Christian
Kuhlen, Torsten

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

Interactive analysis using multiple linked views has been successfully applied to time-dependent simulation data. In this paper we extend previous work by embedding multiple views in a virtual environment. Here, we combine 3D scatterplots with direct interaction and natural stereoscopic viewing. In order to deal with today's simulation data effectively, we propose a hybrid parallelization scheme based on distributing the workload between a powerful compute back-end and a rendering client. It minimizes the amount of latency introduced by the distributed setup, which is vital in order to facilitate highly interactive operations such as brushing. We illustrate the effectiveness of our approach in a case study from the field of flow visualization.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/EGPGV/EGPGV09/079-086
,
booktitle = {Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
},
editor = {Kurt Debattista and Daniel Weiskopf and Joao Comba
},
title = {{Hybrid Parallelization for Multi-View Visualization of Time-Dependent Simulation Data
}},
author = {Hentschel, Bernd and 
Wolter, Marc and 
Renze, Peter and 
Schröder, Wolfgang and 
Bischof, Christian and 
Kuhlen, Torsten
},
year = {2009
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-348X
},
ISBN = {978-3-905674-15-6
},
DOI = {/10.2312/EGPGV/EGPGV09/079-086
}
}