Instructor: Ricardo Farias
Center of Technology, Building H, Room H304, Office 01
Phone Number: +55 21 2562-8647
http://www.cos.ufrj.br/~rfarias
General Information
This is a 3 credit and 45 hour course.
The final grade will be given based on a code implementation and the presentation of a designated third part paper.
Prerequisites:
It is assumed the student to have strong background on C/C++ programming language has attended
an introductory course on Computer Graphics and Algorithms and Data Structure. No previous
knowledge about parallel programming is assumed, since we cover this topic from the beggining.
Lectures:
October, November and December, Mondays, 9:00 - 13:00 in Building H, Room H319 - Lab 2.
Tentative Course Topics
Overview on data structure for 3D regular and irregular datasets
Introduction to Volume Visualization
Redering Algorithms for Regular Grid Datasets
Redeging Algorithms for Irregular Grid Datasets
Introduction to MPI
Parallel Programming applied to Rendering algorithms
Study of Load Balancing for Rendering of Irregular Data
Cases of Study
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Text will be handed out during the course. Mainly papers on specific subjects.