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Nicholas Schwarz’s Thesis Defense
Participants: Nicholas Schwarz
Electronic Visualization Laboratory Department of Computer Science RM 2036 ERF EVL’s Nicholas Schwarz presented his thesis, Distributed Volume Rendering of Very Large Data on High-Resolution Scalable Displays, at EVL’s main lab. This thesis presents a methodology for rendering very large volume data on scalable high-resolution displays using a distributed-memory cluster. The methodology uses a multi-resolution octree, an image-order data distribution method, a distributed shared-memory data management system, a multi-level cache, and hardware accelerated rendering techniques to produce a solution that is scalable in terms of input size and output resolution. An analytical cost model validated by experimental results predicts the system’s behavior. The methodology’s usefulness is demonstrated with a number of domain specific datasets. The primary contributions of this thesis include:
Email: schwarz@evl.uic.edu Date: October 29, 2007 |
