Segment streaming for efficient pipelined televisualization

The authors believe that a pipelined televisualization model is suitable for efficient implementation of most visualization applications. In order to support this model over high-speed networks, they are developing a segment streaming interprocess communication mechanism within the Axon communication architecture. Important aspects of this effort include the segment streaming paradigm which supports low-overhead communication as well as concurrency between the communication and local computation; a two-level flow control method that provides interstage flow control and ensures that the transport level is conforming to the rate agreement with the underlying network; and an application-oriented error control method which allows error control to be optimized for different applications.<>