The current version uses NVIDIA CUDA 3.1 platform exclusively.

Installation

Hardware/Software requirement:

· x86 or x64 machine with any of the following: Vista 32, Vista 64, Server 2003 x64, Server 2008 x64, Windows 7, Windows 8

· CUDA 3.1 capable graphics card and accompanying latest drivers from NVIDIA

· .Net runtime 4.0

Two separate installers are provided for x86 and x64 platforms. Pick one suited to your platform. Select a folder for the installation. Please make sure that this is not a temporary location or a network share/drive as COM components would be registered from this folder. During the installation you would be asked to select a COM registration type for the components

What’s in the installation?

· Two COM components: CacheManager and GPURenderFactory (in several binary forms)

· .Net assembly RCW Wrapper called MicrosoftResearch.MedicalImaging.Visualization.dll

· Sample Applications

o Sample3DViewer – WPF C# application with source code

o SampleWin32App – C++ console application with source code

o Sample Volume Data called Head_12U.bvd in the SampleApps\Sample3DViewer\Data folder

o Transfer functions with the filenames in the form of tf000x.xml in the same folder

· COM registration helper tool called RegisterCOM.exe

· Documentation

Registration Options:

1. Local Server – This would provide rendering for local clients as well as remote clients (through DCOM, more on this later) but require a user session.

2. Local Server and Inproc – Same as above but COM components can be created by clients to be in the same address space of the calling process, which increases the performance.

3. Service and Inproc – COM objects can be served from a service which would require no user session.

4. Unregister

By running RegisterCOM.exe at any time you can change the registration type.