REAL-TIME RENDERING OF TIME-VARYING VOLUME DATA USING A SINGLE COTS COMPUTER

Daisuke Nagayasu, Fumihiko Ino, Kenichi Hagihara

2007

Abstract

This paper presents performance results of an out-of-core renderer, aiming at investigating the possibility of real-time rendering of time-varying scalar volume data using a single commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) computer. Our renderer is accelerated using software techniques such as data compression methods and thread-based pipeline mechanisms. These techniques are efficiently implemented on a COTS computer that combines multiple GPUs, CPUs, and storage devices using scalable link interface (SLI), multi-core, and redundant arrays of inexpensive disks (RAID) technologies, respectively. We find that the COTS-based out-of-core renderer achieves a video rate of 35 frames per second (fps) for 258 × 258 × 208 voxel data with 99 time steps. It also demonstrates an almost interactive rate of 4 fps for 512 × 512 × 295 voxel data with 411 time steps.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Nagayasu D., Ino F. and Hagihara K. (2007). REAL-TIME RENDERING OF TIME-VARYING VOLUME DATA USING A SINGLE COTS COMPUTER . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, ISBN 978-972-8865-71-9, pages 220-227. DOI: 10.5220/0002076502200227

in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp07,
author={Daisuke Nagayasu and Fumihiko Ino and Kenichi Hagihara},
title={REAL-TIME RENDERING OF TIME-VARYING VOLUME DATA USING A SINGLE COTS COMPUTER},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP,},
year={2007},
pages={220-227},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002076502200227},
isbn={978-972-8865-71-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP,
TI - REAL-TIME RENDERING OF TIME-VARYING VOLUME DATA USING A SINGLE COTS COMPUTER
SN - 978-972-8865-71-9
AU - Nagayasu D.
AU - Ino F.
AU - Hagihara K.
PY - 2007
SP - 220
EP - 227
DO - 10.5220/0002076502200227