RESEARCH AND IMPLEMENTATION OF PARALLEL VOLUME RENDERING ON A NETWORK OF WORKSTATIONS

Based on the Splatting method, a new distributed computing paradigm——Host Node Render model for the network of workstations is presented. According to the features of volume data and the Splatting method, a new dynamic load balance strategy——group of taskpools/group of images is proposed. The results of theoretical analysis and numerical testing show that the distributed computing paradigm and load balance strategy presented can improve parallel efficiency effectively.