Volume Rendering Parallel Computer

Project Overview

Development of Parallel Volume Rendering System for Interactive Simulation Environment.

• Texture-based Hardware Assisted Parallel Volume Rendering
• Special Purpose Hardware Assisted Parallel Volume Rendering
• Dynamic Load Balancing for Unstructured Grid Paralle Volume Rendering
• Interactive Simulation System

Papers

IEEE Visualization 2001 Work in Progress Session(pdf file)

ReVolver/C40: A Scalable Parallel Computer for Volume Rendering --Design and Implementation --
IEICE Trans. on Information and Sustems, Vol.E86-D, No.10, Oct.2003

A Parallel Computer Architecture for Volume Rendering

Proc. Int'l Symp. on Parallel and Distributed Supercomputing, Sept. 1995.

List of Papers

All list...Mostly in Japanese
Papers written in English

Figures, Photos, etc.

• VisA Pro Card (jpeg file)
• Overview of the ReVolver/C40 (gif file)
  • Floor Plan of ReVolver/C40 (ps file)
  • RCS Board (bmp file)
  • PCS Boad (bmp file)
  • SS Board (bmp file)

Current Status of Development

Visual Accelerator: VisA (planning)

VisA Protoype Card becomes avaiable from Tokyo Electron Device Co. Ltd. since May 2003.
FPGA Configuration file for Volume Rendering is under development.

Paralle Volume Rendering System with Texture-based Graphics Cards

(P3 1GHz, 512MB Memory, ATI RADEON9700Pro)x 4 nodes + (P4 1.7GHz, 512MB Memory, ATI RADEON9700Pro)x 1 nodes (Host)

ReVolver/C40

ReVolver/C40-mini (available)

RCS:3DSPs, PCS:8DSPs with Voxel Preload, SS:8DSPs

ReVolver/C40-demo (running)

RCS:none, PCS:32DSPs w/o Voxel Preload, SS:8DSPs

ReVolver/C40(planning)

RCS:8DSPs, PCS:128DSPs with Voxel Preload, SS:16DSPs