Object-oriented parallel polygon rendering

Conference · Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1994

OSTI ID:10109198

Heiland, R W

Since many scientific datasets can be visualized using some polygonal representation, a polygon renderer has broad use for scientific visualization. With today`s high performance computing applications producing very large datasets, a parallel polygon renderer is a necessary tool for keeping the compute-visualize cycle at a minimum. This paper presents a DOIV on renderer that combines the shared-memory and message-passing models of parallel programming. It uses the Global Arrays library, a shared-memory programming toolkit for distributed memory machines. The experience of using an object oriented approach for software design and development is also discussed.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 10109198
• Report Number(s): PNL-SA--25031; CONF-9409278--3; ON: DE95004909
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
990200
ARRAY PROCESSORS
COMPUTER GRAPHICS
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
DISTRIBUTED DATA PROCESSING
MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS
PARALLEL PROCESSING