Distributed Rendering for Scalable Displays
Greg Humphreys,
Ian Buck,
Matthew Eldridge and
Pat Hanrahan
Stanford University
Appears in the Proceedings of Supercomputing 2000
Abstract:
We describe a novel distributed graphics system that allows an application to
render to a large tiled display. Our system, called WireGL, uses a cluster of
off-the-shelf PCs connected with a high-speed network. WireGL allows an
unmodified existing application to achieve scalable output resolution on such a
display. This paper presents an efficient sorting algorithm which minimizes
the network traffic for a scalable display. We will demonstrate that for most
applications, our system provides scalable output resolution with minimal
performance impact.
Paper
Greg Humphreys