A Sorting Classification of Parallel Rendering
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
The sort-first rendering architecture for high-performance graphics
I3D '95 Proceedings of the 1995 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics
Transparent distributed processing for rendering
PVGS '99 Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE symposium on Parallel visualization and graphics
Scalable distributed visualization using off-the-shelf components
PVGS '99 Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE symposium on Parallel visualization and graphics
VVS '89 Proceedings of the 1989 Chapel Hill workshop on Volume visualization
Surfels: surface elements as rendering primitives
Proceedings of the 27th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
QSplat: a multiresolution point rendering system for large meshes
Proceedings of the 27th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
A Characterization of Ten Hidden-Surface Algorithms
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
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
Distributed rendering of interactive soft shadows
EGPGV '02 Proceedings of the Fourth Eurographics Workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
Physical cloth simulation on a PC cluster
EGPGV '02 Proceedings of the Fourth Eurographics Workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
Interactive visibility culling in complex environments using occlusion-switches
I3D '03 Proceedings of the 2003 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics
Sepia: Scalable 3D Compositing Using PCI Pamette
FCCM '99 Proceedings of the Seventh Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines
Interactive shadow generation in complex environments
ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Papers
Brook for GPUs: stream computing on graphics hardware
ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Papers
GPU Cluster for High Performance Computing
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Functionality Distribution for Parallel Rendering
IPDPS '05 Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'05) - Papers - Volume 01
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Traditionally graphics clusters have been employed in real-time visualization of large geometric models (many millions of 3D points). Data parallel approaches have been the obvious choices when it comes to breaking up the computations over multiple processors. In recent years, programmable graphics hardware has gained widespread acceptance. Today, every processing node in a graphics cluster has two powerful and fully programmable processors – a CPU (Central Processing Unit) and a GPU (Graphics processing unit). It enables distribution of graphics computations targeting an applications’s needs in more flexible ways. In this paper we discuss and analyze our implementation of functionality distributed point-based rendering pipeline with impressive performance improvements. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first attempt to devise a functionality distribution scheme for a large data and compute-intensive application. We discuss the merits and limitations of such a distribution scheme by comparing it against traditional data parallel and single node schemes.