• On the design and performance of the PARFUM Parallel Fault Tolerant Volume Renderer 

      Asplin, Jo; Mehus, Sindre (Research report; Forskningsrapport, 1997-01)
      Volume rendering is an important and CPU-intensive technique for visualizing large scalar fields. In essence, a volume renderer performs two activites on behalf of the user: loading a new data set, and rendering the current one. At one level, the performance of an individual activity is important. At another level, the erformance of the session as a whole, in particular switching from one activity ...
    • Performance experiments with the Storm View Distributed Parallel Volume Renderer. 

      Asplin, Jo; Johansen, Dag (Research report; Forskningsrapport, 1995-06)
      Volume rendering is a useful but cpu-intensive method for visualizing large scalar fields. The time to render a single image may be reduced by parallel processing. This paper reports on performance experiments with the StormView volume renderer, which is parallelized on a set of 57 MIPS / 17 MFLOPS workstations connected by a 10 Mbps Ethernet. For certain user patterns, we show that our parallelization ...