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Sort-last parallel rendering for viewing extremely large data sets on tile displays | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore

Sort-last parallel rendering for viewing extremely large data sets on tile displays


Abstract:

Due to the impressive price-performance of today's PC-based graphics accelerator cards, Sandia National Laboratories is attempting to use PC clusters to render extremely ...Show More

Abstract:

Due to the impressive price-performance of today's PC-based graphics accelerator cards, Sandia National Laboratories is attempting to use PC clusters to render extremely large data sets in interactive applications. This paper describes a sort-last parallel rendering system running on a PC cluster that is capable of rendering enormous amounts of geometry onto high-resolution tile displays by taking advantage of the spatial coherency that is inherent in our data. Furthermore, it is capable of scaling to larger sized input data or higher resolution displays by increasing the size of the cluster. Our prototype is now capable of rendering 120 million triangles per second on a 12 mega-pixel display.
Date of Conference: 23-23 October 2001
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 02 February 2009
Print ISBN:0-7803-7223-9
Conference Location: San Diego, CA, USA

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