The focus in Parallel3D will be on natural and human made objects and structures, medical data, industrial and scientific simulation results, and combinations thereof:

• To develop methods for rich contents handling that balance three levels of parallelism: Data stream processing (on Programmable Graphics Processing Units), Threading (multi-core CPUs and multi-CPU computers) and Message passing (parallel computers and networks of computers).
• To address how to organize structures of rich contents in a parallel environment and replace or enhance the traditional scene graph approach with new concepts.
• To develop working prototypes of core software libraries for handling of rich contents in parallel environments.
• To supervise two PhD fellows.
• To demonstrate the new approach for rich contents visualization and interaction on selected large data sets from the public sector and industry.
• To write tutorials and academic papers for international publication, both addressing domain experts, a general IT audience and a general audience.
• To disseminate project results to Norwegian industry to establish new and improve existing Norwegian IT-products.