VolumePro VolumePro was a three generaion ASIC based Volume Rendering engine consisting of the VP500, VP1000 and VP2000. The original idea was started at SUNY Stonybrook and finished there as Hanspeter Pfister’s PhD thesis. Hanspeter was hired by Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab (MERL) and began working on a product version. A team of engineeers was hired and created the VP500. This was brought to market by a spin off of MERL, Real Time Visualization (RTViz). As soon as the VP500 was done, work began on VP1000. VP1000 was completed and VP2000 was designed and completed by TeraRecon. Awards for VP500 Computer Graphics Innovation txt

VolumePro Timeline

1996-06-01 Hanspeter Pfister’s PhD thesis: Cube-4: A Scalable Architecture for Real-Time Volume Rendering
1997-03-21 Jan Hardenbergh starts working for Hugh Lauer at MERL. First outside engineer hired onto the project.
1997-08-03 EM-Cube paper at Eurographics Archived Paper
1998-03-XX T.C. Zhao & Vikram Simha hired
1998-06-07 T.C. Creates VLI User's Manual
1998-09-22 Andy Vesper hired.
1998-12-31 Yin Wu hired. 
1999-04-23 The Roadrunner chip renders its first frame - first 1/2 bottle of Moet.
1999-05-01 The chip may have a rotation bug - hangs a certan angles.
1999-XX-XX RealTime Visualization (rtviz.com), a wholy owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric (? or just finianced?)
1999-07-01 Move from MERL, 201 Broadway in Kendal Square to 300 Baker Ave. in  West Concord
1999-08-08 VolumePro 500 paper at SIGGRAPH99
1999-08-08 VolumePro 500 demo
2000-03-04 ECR2000 we showed the first VPNET (pre AqNet) based on VP500. That was before we were bought by TR.
2000-XX-XX TeraRecon, Inc purchases a majority share of Realtime Visualization
2001-01-26 Revise power jumper header for VP500
2001-04-XX Demo IIVS workstation integrated with VP500 in JAR 2001 (the predecessor of ITEM).
2001-06-16 Release parts for VP1000 Board 
2001-10-09 Create Rev. B2 of VP1000 Board
2002-03-XX VP1000 starts shipping
2002-09-03 Release of VolumePro 1000 development kit CD
2002-09-13 Release new revision level of AQNet Software CD, PN. 64-0020
2002-10-17 Condor Hardware team layoff -  "we were so far ahead, we could afford it" -Motoaki
2002-11-2X VP1000 demo at RSNA
2004-02-13 VolumePro 1000 3.2 final software for Windows
2006-11-14 Release revision B VP2000ASX, VP2000DFE and VP2000QFE boards
2006-11-XX VP2000 demo at RSNA.
2007-10-24 AQNet - AQi Server and ThinClient 4.1.0.19
2007-XX-XX Falcon 1.1 respin 
2008-10-29 Release first version of VolumePro 2000 Diagnostics User?s Guide
2008-12-08 Falcon HW & SW Team layoff ( Crash of 2006 and the Great Recession )
2009-10-15 Add a board stiffener to 40-0401 quad ASIC boards.
2014-04-28 Add Fan RPM Detection to 40-0400 board (fan failure is the leading cause of baord failures)
2017-02-17 TeraRecon Press Release for VolumePro (VP) CUDA, which will ship with all new servers.
2017-03-01 Testing station set up in Foster City for testing VP2000D boards with Rev M. memories.
2017-05-10 Toshi Sakaguchi and Bill Booth laid off - no more Hardware Engineering at TeraRecon
2017-12-09 VolumePro Wake, Goodbye & Reunion!!!

2017-03-10