An accelerated remote graphics architecture for PDAS
An accelerated remote graphics architecture for PDAS
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PDAS 的加速远程图形架构
DOI：
10.1145/636593.636602
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发表时间：
2003
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通讯作者：
Marco Maniezzo
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作者：
F. Lamberti;C. Zunino;A. Sanna;A. Fiume;Marco Maniezzo
自九十年代末以来，被称为个人数字助理（PDA）的新类别的设备已经变得越来越普遍。大量的软件应用已经被开发用于PDA，但是高质量的3D图形仍然超出了这些设备的计算能力。本文通过提出一个通用的解决方案，在集群上的硬件加速远程渲染解决这个问题。渲染任务通过Chromium架构提交给PC/工作站集群（每个集群机器配备图形加速器）。每台机器渲染图像的一部分，然后重新组装并通过软件桥发送到PDA。在PDA方面，使用者可以使用一个特设的导航界面来探索场景。所提出的解决方案允许以交互的方式显示极其逼真和复杂的模型。此外，我们的架构不依赖于商业解决方案/产品，可以很容易地修改，以更好地满足特定应用的要求。计算机图形分布式/网络图形分布式系统分布式应用
A new category of devices, known as Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), has become increasingly widespread since the end of the nineties. A large number of software applications have been developed for PDAs, but high-quality 3D graphics still remain beyond the computational capability of these devices.This paper tackles this issue by proposing a generic solution for hardware-accelerated remote rendering on cluster. The rendering task is submitted to a PC/workstation cluster (each cluster machine is equipped by a graphics accelerator) by means of the Chromium architecture. Each machine renders a part of the image that is then reassembled and sent to the PDA via a software bridge. On the PDA side, the user can explore the scene using an ad-hoc navigation interface.The proposed solution allows to display extremely realistic and complex models in an interactive way. Moreover, our architecture does not depend on commercial solutions/products and can be easily modified in order to better fulfill requirements of specific applications.Computer GraphicsDistributed/network graphics Distributed SystemsDistributed applications