Distributed rendering for scalable displays

  • Authors:
  • Greg Humphreys;Ian Buck;Matthew Eldridge;Pat Hanrahan

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, Stanford University;Computer Science Department, Stanford University;Computer Science Department, Stanford University;Computer Science Department, Stanford University

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2000 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We describe a novel distributed graphics system that allows an application to render to a large tiled display. Our system, called WireGL, uses a cluster of off-the-shelf PCs connected with a high-speed network. WireGL allows an unmodified existing application to achieve scalable output resolution on such a display. This paper presents an efficient sorting algorithm which minimizes the network traffic for a scalable display. We will demonstrate that for most applications, our system provides scalableoutput resolution with minimal performance impact.