MRI: Acquisition of a Graphics Supercomputer for Synthetic Environment Serving Science and Engineering

Fuchs, Henry Bishop， Gary University of North Carolina Chapel Hill核磁共振成像：为合成环境服务科学与工程获得一台图形超级计算机提议的仪器是一台最先进的实时图形计算机，一个硅图形现实怪物。这台机器紧密结合了8个高性能图形渲染管道和32个传统的RISC处理器。该仪器将加速实时合成环境在科学和工程中的应用研究。本提案中提出的主要项目是那些卓越的图形处理能力和紧密耦合的高性能计算能力对于在未来三年内实现其他不可能的研究进展至关重要的项目。这些项目包括：利用原子力显微镜的数据绘制纳米尺度的世界图像；增强现实技术的应用，比如通过腹腔镜，让外科医生看到身体内部的图像；渲染复杂的人造结构（如船舶和工厂）的大量模型，用于交互式演练，以检查结构并做出设计决策；直接从远程真实世界场景的多幅图像以及传统几何模型进行渲染；快速渲染到大型，数百万像素的显示器，无论是头戴式或覆盖墙壁；户外跟踪增强现实。

EIA-9871222 Fuchs, Henry Bishop, Gary University of North Carolina Chapel Hill MRI: Acquisition of a Graphics Supercomputer for Synthetic Environments Service Science and Engineering The proposed instrument is a state-of-the-art real-time graphics computer, a Silicon Graphics Reality Monster. This machine intimately combines eight high-performance graphics rendering pipelines with 32 conventional RISC processors. This instrument will accelerate research on real-time synthetic-environments applications in science and engineering. The principal projects set forth in this proposal are those for which both the exceptional graphics power and the intimately coupled high-performance computing power are crucial for enabling otherwise impossible research advances in the next three years. The projects include: rendering images of the world at nanometer scales as data come from atomic-force microscopes; augmented reality for applications such as giving the surgeon a view into the body using the images from inside the body, through a laparoscope; rendering massive models of complex man-made structures, such as ships and factories, for interactive walkthroughs to examine structures and make design decisions; rendering directly from multiple images of remote real-world scenes as well as from traditional geometric models; rapidly rendering to large, multi-megapixel displays either head-mounted or covering the walls; tracking outdoors for augmented reality.