PRS'95 Advance Program

The PRS'95 Co-Chairs are proud to announce the advance program for the Parallel Rendering Symposium! Registration information included at the bottom. PRS'95 is one of three symposia this year, and there is a full program that you can access through Mosaic or anonymous ftp. Please enjoy the advance program, and we'll see you in Atlanta October 30th.

Sincerely Symposium Co-Chairs Samuel P. Uselton, Computer Sciences Corporation at NASA Ames Research Center Michael Cox, Sun Microsystems Craig M. Wittenbrink, University of California at Santa Cruz

1995 Parallel Rendering Symposium (PRS 95) Atlanta, Georgia, Monday, October 30 and Tuesday, October 31, 1995

Monday, October 30

• 8:30 - 10.00 Registration
• 10:00 - 10:20 Opening Session
• 10:20 - 11:20 Keynote Address Henry Fuchs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 11:20 - 1:00 Break
• 1:00 - 3:00 Session 1: Volume Rendering

  Fast Volume Rendering Using an Efficient, Scalable Parallel Formulation of the Shear-Warp Algorithm. Minesh B. Amin, Ananth Grama, Vineet Singh, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

  Real-Time Volume Rendering on Shared Memory Multiprocessors Using the Shear-Warp Factorization. Philippe Lacroute, Stanford University

  Parallel Volume Raytracing Unstructured-Grid Data on Distributed Memory Architectures. Kwan-Liu Ma, Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering

• 3:00 - 3:30 Break
• 3:30 - 5:30 Session 2: Parallel Radiosity

  Implementation Results and Analysis of a Parallel Progressive Radiosity. Pascal Guitton, Jean Roman, Gilles Subrenat, Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique, Universite Bordeaux I

  Load Balancing for a Parallel Radiosity Algorithm. W. Sturzlinger, G. Schaufler, J. Volkert Johannes, Kepler University

  Efficient Parallel Radiosity using Density Estimation. David Zareski, Bretton Wade, Philip Hubgard, Peter Shirley, Cornell University

• 7:00 - 9:00 Symposium Reception

Tuesday, October 31

• 8:30 - 10:30 Session 3: Surface Rendering

  Image Composition Methods for Sort-Last Polygon Rendering on 2-D Mesh Architectures. Tong-Yee Lee, C.S. Raghavendra, Washington State University, John B. Nicholas, Pacific Northwest Laboratory

  A Load Balanced SIMD Polygon Renderer. Scott Whitman, Cray Research

  Remote Interactive Visualization and Analysis (RIVA) Using Parallel Supercomputers. P. Peggy Li, William H. Duquette, David W. Curkendall, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

• 10:30 - 11:00 Break
• 11:00 - 11:40 Invited Paper: PixelFlow: The Continuing Saga Anselmo Lastra, Steven Molnar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 11:40 - 1:10 Break
• 1:10 - 2:30 Session 4: Hardware

  Synchronization for a Multi-Port Frame Buffer on a Mesh-Connected Multicomputer. Bin Wei, Gordon Stoll, Douglas Clark, Edward W. Felten, Kai Li, Princeton University, Patrick Hanrahan, Stanford University

  Interactive Parallel Rendering on a Multiprocessor System with Intelligent Communication Controllers. Bernhard Baumle, Peter Kohler, Anton Gunzinger, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

• 2:30 - 3:00 Break
• 3:00 - 5:00 Panel: "Which will go away: general-purpose parallel rendering or custom graphics architectures?" Moderator: Michael Cox, Sun Microsystems Panelists: Kurt Akeley, Advanced Systems Division, Silicon Graphics Nick England, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chuck Hansen, Los Alamos Advanced Computing Laboratory Philippe Lacroute, Stanford University
• 5:15 - Closing Remarks

Symposium Co-Chairs: Samuel P. Uselton, Computer Sciences Corporation at NASA Ames Research Center; Michael Cox, Sun Microsystems; Craig M. Wittenbrink, University of California at Santa Cruz.

• Kurt Akeley, Silicon Graphics
• Tony Apodaca, Pixar
• Tom Crockett, ICASE
• Frank Crow, Interval Research
• Michael Deering, Sun Microsystems
• Don Fussell, University of Texas
• Pat Hanrahan, Stanford University
• Chuck Hansen, Los Alamos Advanced Computing Laboratory
• Arie Kaufman, State University of New York at Stony Brook
• Paul MacKerras, Australian National University
• Steve Molnar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Ulrich Neumann, University of Southern California
• Jamie Painter, Los Alamos Advanced Computing Laboratory
• Georgios Sakas, Fraunhofer Institute Computer Graphics, Germany
• Peter Schroeder, University of South Carolina
• Scott Whitman, Cray Research

For further information, contact prs95-info@cse.ucsc.edu, see the World Wide Web site http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~craig/prs95-info.html , or contact

Craig M. Wittenbrink, University of California

The Baskin Center for Computer Engineering & Computer and

Information Sciences

225 Applied Sciences

Santa Cruz, CA 95064

Phone: 408.459.4099 Fax: 408.459.4829

For further information about the IEEE Visualization '95 Conference, see the information below. IEEE Visualization '95 Conference Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Graphics In Cooperation with ACM/SIGGRAPH October 29 - November 3, 1995 Atlanta Airport Hilton and Towers Atlanta, Georgia

Get complete, up-to-date listings of program information from URL: http://www.gatech.edu/vis95.html, FTP server: ftp.erc.msstate.edu, directory vis95, or vis95.informatik.uni-kl.de, directory info, or contact: Bill Ribarsky, Georgia Institute of Technology, 404.894.6148, bill.ribarsky@oit.gatech.edu