Tera-Pixels - Next Generation Display Architectures

本研究探讨了支持高分辨率分布式计算机显示器的新技术和系统架构。这个问题是计算机工业和计算机科学与工程领域未来增长和发展的基础。我们的方法是提高计算机显示通信的语义水平，努力提高计算机显示器的智能。这项创新将减少系统带宽，从而提供更大的可扩展性。通过在显示器中提供本地智能，将有可能将数据显示器的概念与它所连接的特定计算机分离。这种显示信息与计算资源的分离具有广泛的意义，从个人手持设备到公共大幅面显示器，研究人员的方法提供了从任何设备对任何显示器的无缝访问。它还支持多个同时连接到一个显示器。这是通过有效传输显示原语和使用有效的更高级别协议来实现的。为显示接口开发更高级别的语义可以提高带宽利用率，因此可以支持更大更高分辨率的显示器。高级接口和本地智能的组合改进了交互，具有使内容流的呈现适应特定显示平台的能力。智能显示器将为低分辨率的移动的设备以及墙壁大小的会议室显示器定制他们的演示文稿。本研究主要包括三个方面的内容：1）研究和开发新的智能显示架构，以克服传统的帧缓冲架构的局限性。2)开发更高级别和更高带宽效率的协议，用于与视觉显示器进行数据通信。3)开发虚拟化显示器所需的新同步和上下文切换功能，以便将其用作分布式资源。

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.