WireGL: a scalable graphics system for clusters
Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Chromium: a stream-processing framework for interactive rendering on clusters
Proceedings of the 29th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Building and Using A Scalable Display Wall System
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Introduction to 3d Game Programming with Directx 9.0
Introduction to 3d Game Programming with Directx 9.0
GPU Gems 2: Programming Techniques for High-Performance Graphics and General-Purpose Computation (Gpu Gems)
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Vertex shader and pixel shader are new programmable units of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). According to their architecture and Direct3D9 application execution flow on single node, we present transparent shader-based Direct3D9 application parallelization strategy. We has divided graphics cluster into two types of logical node, i.e. resource distributing node (D-Node) and resource rendering node (R-Node). Among them, D-Node is responsible for converting Direct3D9 application to six kinds of rendering resource, including command stream, vertex shader, pixel shader, vertex stream, index stream and texture stream, R-Node is responsible for reconstructing Direct3D9 interface rendering command based on the description information and resource data of received rendering resource. Each R-Node distributes rendering task by computing the bounding box of multi-stream based scene data in the screen space. Experimental results have shown that this strategy can realize transparent shader-based Direct3D9 application parallelization and support high-resolution tiled display. In contrast to single node rendering, four nodes parallel rendering based on graphics cluster can not only promote rendering performance but also achieve average speedup at 2.9.