Sort-last parallel rendering for viewing extremely large data sets on tile displays
Sort-last parallel rendering for viewing extremely large data sets on tile displays
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最后排序并行渲染，用于在平铺显示上查看极大的数据集
DOI：
10.5555/502125.502141
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发表时间：
2001
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通讯作者：
C. Pavlakos
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作者：
K. Moreland;B. Wylie;C. Pavlakos
由于当今基于PC的图形加速器卡具有令人印象深刻的性价比，桑迪亚国家实验室正试图使用PC集群在交互式应用中渲染超大数据集。本文介绍了一种排序最后的并行渲染系统上运行的PC集群，能够渲染大量的几何形状到高分辨率的瓷砖显示器，利用空间的一致性，这是我们的数据中固有的。此外，它能够通过增加集群的大小来缩放到更大尺寸的输入数据或更高分辨率的显示。我们的原型现在能够在12兆像素的显示器上每秒渲染1.2亿个三角形。
Due to the impressive price-performance of today's PC-based graphics accelerator cards, Sandia National Laboratories is attempting to use PC clusters to render extremely large data sets in interactive applications. This paper describes a sort-last parallel rendering system running on a PC cluster that is capable of rendering enormous amounts of geometry onto high-resolution tile displays by taking advantage of the spatial coherency that is inherent in our data. Furthermore, it is capable of scaling to larger sized input data or higher resolution displays by increasing the size of the cluster. Our prototype is now capable of rendering 120 million triangles per second on a 12 mega-pixel display.