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The Architecture of Vistle, a Scalable Distributed Visualization System

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Vistle is a scalable distributed implementation of the visualization pipeline. Modules are realized as MPI processes on a cluster. Within a node, different modules communicate via shared memory. TCP is used for communication between clusters.

Vistle targets especially interactive visualization in immersive virtual environments. For low latency, a combination of parallel remote and local rendering is possible.

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This work has been supported in part by the CRESTA project that has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (ICT-2011.9.13).

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    Martin Aumüller

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    Erwin Laure

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Aumüller, M. (2015). The Architecture of Vistle, a Scalable Distributed Visualization System. In: Markidis, S., Laure, E. (eds) Solving Software Challenges for Exascale. EASC 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8759. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15976-8_11

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