SBIR Phase I: The Media Fusion Project: A Distributed Architecture for Mega-Pixel Displays

这个小型企业创新研究第一阶段项目将开发一种架构，以支持在新一类新兴显示器上管理和显示媒体。建议的架构是一种支持显示器的新方法，能够1)随着不同的显示组件(投影仪)的重新定位而重新配置自身，以及2)扩展到潜在的数亿像素。这将使用独特的分布式帧缓冲区抽象来实现，该抽象允许在大型机器集群上管理像素，并使用支持重新配置的订阅模型。拟议的媒体融合架构有可能对世界与媒体互动的方式产生重大影响。建议的方法还将对几个科学社区产生影响，包括分布式渲染、媒体分发和内存管理。即将引入的技术是这些社区方法的补充，但它们的独特之处在于它们解决了显示设备集群的挑战。除了巨大的经济和科学影响潜力之外，媒体融合架构还将向以前从未接触过先进显示技术的用户介绍这些技术。例如，教室、会议室、电话会议甚至家庭中的展示墙。

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will develop an architecture to support the management and display of media on a new class of emerging displays. The proposed architecture is a new approach to supporting displays with the ability to 1) reconfigure themselves as different display components (projectors) are repositioned and 2) scale to potentially hundreds of millions of pixels. This will be accomplished using a unique distributed framebuffer abstraction that allows pixels to be managed over large clusters of machines and a subscription model that supports reconfiguration. The proposed Media Fusion Architecture has the potential to significantly impact the way in which the world interacts with media. The proposed approach will also have impact on several scientific communities including distributed rendering, media distribution, and memory management. The techniques that will be introduced are complementary of approaches by those communities but are unique in that they address the challenges of a cluster of display devices. Beyond the tremendous potential for economic and scientific impact, the Media Fusion Architecture will introduce advanced display technologies to users who have never had access to them before. Examples include, display walls in the classroom, conference rooms, teleconferencing, and even the home.