A multi-processor workstation with a logic-enhanced distributed frame buffer

  • Authors:
  • Frederik W. Jansen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Industrial Design, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • EGGH'87 Proceedings of the Second Eurographics conference on Advances in Computer Graphics Hardware
  • Year:
  • 1987

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Abstract

A graphics workstation should offer both a wide variety of 2D and 3D realtime display functions as well as a programmable parallel-processing capacity for large processing tasks. A system concept is proposed that meets these requirements by offering a multi-processor configuration with general-purpose programmable processors, enhanced with specific logic that can perform for each node a large number of simple pixel operations in parallel.