Towards a scalable high performance application platform for immersive virtual environments

Authors:
Matthias Bues;Roland Blach;Simon Stegmaier;Ulrich Häfner;Hilko Hoffmann;Frank Haselberger
Affiliations:
Competence Center Virtual Environments, Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering, Stuttgart, Germany;Competence Center Virtual Environments, Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering, Stuttgart, Germany;Competence Center Virtual Environments, Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering, Stuttgart, Germany;Competence Center Virtual Environments, Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering, Stuttgart, Germany;Competence Center Virtual Environments, Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering, Stuttgart, Germany;Competence Center Virtual Environments, Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering, Stuttgart, Germany
Venue:
EGVE'01 Proceedings of the 7th Eurographics conference on Virtual Environments & 5th Immersive Projection Technology
Year:
2001

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Abstract

Software for the development and generation of virtual environments used to run on specialized and expensive hardware. This situation has dramatically changed in the last two years. This paper describes a scalable high performance application platform for immersive environments using commodity hardware. Scalability will be obtained with a coarse cluster of specialized nodes, with emphasis on distributed real-time rendering. As data synchronization method a distributed shared memory approach is used. Dedicated to this hardware setup, a modular component oriented design is presented.