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Parallel visualization of large-scale aerodynamics calculations: a case study on the Cray T3E

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Kwan-Liu Ma,

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PVGS '99: Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE symposium on Parallel visualization and graphics

Pages 15 - 20

https://doi.org/10.1145/328712.319332

Published: 25 October 1999 Publication History

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This paper reports the performance of a parallel volume rendering algorithm for visualizing a large-scale unstructed-grid dataset produced by a three-dimensional aerodynamics simulation. This dataset, containing over 18 million tetrahedra, allows us to extend our performance results to a problem which is more than 30 times larger than the one we examined previously. This high resolution dataset also allows us to see fine, three-dimensional features in the flow field. All our tests were performed on the SGI/Cray T3E operated by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Using 511 processors, a rendering rate of almost 9 million tetrahedra/second was achieved with a parallel overhead of 26%.

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