I3DC: Interactive Three-Dimensional Cubes
Ke Yang, Yinan Li, Qiong Luo, Pedro V. Sander, Jiaoying Shi · Proceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering · 2009
We present the I3DC system prototype, which constructs the cube for tens of millions of data items within milliseconds, and provides high-quality cube visualization as well as highly-interactive OLAP operations. Our approach is based on a novel blending-as-aggregation (BAA) algorithm that maps distributive OLAP aggregations to the intrinsic rendering mechanisms of the GPU. Our system runs entirely on the GPU and requires no precomputations.