Tera-Pixels - Next Generation Display Architectures

本研究探索支持高分辨率分布式计算机显示的新技术和系统架构。这个问题对计算机行业和计算机科学与工程领域的未来增长和发展至关重要。我们的方法是提高计算机显示通信的语义水平，以努力增加计算机显示的智能。这种创新将减少系统带宽，从而提供更大的可伸缩性。通过在显示器中提供本地智能，将有可能将数据显示的概念与它所连接的特定计算机解耦。显示信息与计算资源的这种解耦具有广泛的含义，从个人手持设备到公共大格式显示器。调查员的方法提供了从任何设备无缝访问任何显示。它还支持多个同时连接到单个显示器。这是通过有效地传输显示原语和使用有效的高级协议来实现的。为显示接口开发更高级的语义可以提高带宽利用率，从而支持更大、更高分辨率的显示。高级接口和本地智能的组合提高了交互能力，使内容流的表示适应特定的显示平台。智能显示器将为低分辨率的移动设备以及墙壁大小的会议室显示器量身定制演示文稿。研究包括三个方面：1)研究和开发能够克服传统帧缓冲架构局限性的新型智能显示架构。2)开发更高级别和带宽效率更高的协议，用于与视觉显示器之间的数据通信。3)开发虚拟化显示器所需的新的同步和上下文切换功能，以便它们可以作为分布式资源使用。

This research explores new technologies and system architectures for supporting high-resolution distributed computer displays. This problem is fundamental to the future growth and development of the computer industry and the fields of computer science and engineering. Our approach is to raise the semantic level of computer-display communication in an effort to increase the intelligence of computer displays. This innovation will reduce system bandwidth and, thus, provide greater scalability. By providing local intelligence in displays it will be possible to decouple the notion of a data display from the specific computer to which it is attached. This decoupling of displayed information from computing resources has broad implications that span all the way from personal hand-held devices to public large-format displays.The investigators approach provides seamless access to any display from any device. It also supports multiple simultaneous connections to a single display. This is achieved via the efficient transport of display primitives, and by using effective higher-level protocols. Developing higher-level semantics for display interfaces improves bandwidth utilization and, therefore, supports larger higher-resolution displays. The combination of higher-level interfaces and local intelligence improves interaction with the ability to adapt the presentation of a content stream to the specific display platform. Intelligent displays will tailor their presentations to low-resolution mobile devices as well as wall-sized boardroom displays. The research includes three initiatives: 1) To investigate and develop new intelligent display architectures capable of overcoming the limitations of traditional frame-buffer architectures. 2) To develop higher-level and more bandwidth-efficient protocols for communicating data to and from visual displays. 3) To develop new synchronization and context-switching capabilities necessary to virtualize displays so that they might be used as distributed resources.