Parallel volume rendering on a single-chip SIMD architecture

Volume rendering has great potential for parallelization due to the tremendous number of computations necessary. Besides the enormous computational power needed, the memory interface is usually of crucial importance and frequently the bottleneck. The paper presents an implementation of a parallel ra...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE Parallel and Large Data Visualization and Graphics Symposium 2001 S. 107 - 157
Hauptverfasser: Meissner, M., Grimm, S., Strasser, W., Packer, J., Latimer, D.
Format: Tagungsbericht
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: IEEE 2001
Schlagworte:
Casting
Computer architecture
Computer graphics
Concurrent computing
Interpolation
Memory architecture
Parallel processing
Parallel programming
Real time systems
Rendering (computer graphics)
ISBN:0780372239, 9780780372238
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Zusammenfassung:Volume rendering has great potential for parallelization due to the tremendous number of computations necessary. Besides the enormous computational power needed, the memory interface is usually of crucial importance and frequently the bottleneck. The paper presents an implementation of a parallel ray casting algorithm for orthogonal projections on a new single-chip SIMD architecture. Concurrent processing of rays is scheduled such that redundant memory accesses of the individual processing elements can be detected by the channel controller. Hence, data can be read efficiently in block-wise manner. For improved image quality, a permutation of the Shear-Warp algorithm with trilinear interpolation is used. The steps of the ray casting algorithm are carefully mapped onto the architecture avoiding expensive floating point operation, giving superior performance over previously reported results. A detailed analysis illustrates the timing of the individual computations and memory accesses, identifying the costliest parts of the implementation.
ISBN:0780372239
9780780372238
DOI:10.1109/PVGS.2001.964411