“Sort-First Parallel Rendering with a Cluster of PCs” by Forte, Hall, Remagnino and Honey

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    Sort-First Parallel Rendering with a Cluster of PCs

Session/Category Title:   Rendering on Diverse Platforms


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    An investigation of research issues in constructing a low cost parallel rendering system using a cluster of PCs. This work demonstrates that sort-first approaches can achieve good speedups for moderate numbers of PCs.

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    1. Molnar, S., Cox, M., Ellsworth, D., & Fuchs, H. (1994). A sorting classification of parallel rendering. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 14 (4), 23-32.
    2. Mueller, C. (1995). The sort-first rendering architecture for high-performance graphics. 1995 Symposium on Interactive 3-D Graphics.
    3. Samanta, R., Zheng, J., Funkhouser, T., Li, K., & Singh, J.P. (1999, August). Load balancing for multi-projector rendering systems. SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware.


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