1 / 30

Supporting Multi-CPU and GPU Systems in AVS

2. Overview. BackgroundMulti-pipe Edition (MPE)Parallel Edition (PE)Distributed Data Render Edition. 3. Who are we?. Research Computing ServicesEstablished 1975 as the Computer Graphics UnitBecame the Manchester Visualization Centre in 1996Provide graphics and visualization support across c

hawa
Download Presentation

Supporting Multi-CPU and GPU Systems in AVS

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

    1. Supporting Multi-CPU and GPU Systems in AVS/Express James S. Perrin, George W. Leaver & Louise Lever University of Manchester Email: james.perrin@manchester.ac.uk george.leaver@manchester.ac.uk Web: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/researchcomputing

    2. 2 Overview Background Multi-pipe Edition (MPE) Parallel Edition (PE) Distributed Data Render Edition

    3. 3 Who are we? Research Computing Services Established 1975 as the Computer Graphics Unit Became the Manchester Visualization Centre in 1996 Provide graphics and visualization support across campus Research and development involved with many national and international projects MSc courses, MSc and PhD projects Expanded over the last ten years to provide HPC & Grid computing National Access Grid Support Centre eScience Research Computing Consultancy & Procurement Support

    4. 4 AVS/Express Rapid Visualization pipeline construction Visual programming Easy to build GUI system Extensive visualization tools User extensible (C/C++) Portability V code description language Version 7.0+ fully 64bit (>2GB)

More Related