The design and evaluation of a pipelined image compositing device for massively parallel volume rendering
Masato Ogata, Shigeru Muraki, Xuezhen Liu, Kwan‐Liu Ma · 2003
An experimental study of software image compositing that we have carried out on a 512-node PC cluster shows the necessity of hardware compositing support to make possible real-time volume visualization scalable with large PC clusters. This paper describes the design and performance evaluation of such a hardware image compositing device. A PC cluster using such devices along with commodity graphics cards can enable simultaneous simulation and volume visualization.