A survey and performance analysis of software platforms for interactive cluster-based multi-screen rendering

Authors:
Oliver G. Staadt;Justin Walker;Christof Nuber;Bernd Hamann
Affiliations:
University of California, Davis;University of California, Davis;University of California, Davis;University of California, Davis
Venue:
EGVE '03 Proceedings of the workshop on Virtual environments 2003
Year:
2003

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Abstract

We present a survey of different software architectures designed to render on a tiled display. We provide an in-depth analysis of three selected systems, including their implementation of data distribution, sort-first rendering, and overall usability. We use various test cases to analyze the performance of these three systems.