Sort-last parallel rendering for viewing extremely large data sets on tile displays

K. Moreland, B. Wylie, C. Pavlakos

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Abstract

Due to the impressive price-performance of today's PC-based graphics accelerator cards, Sandia National Laboratories is attempting to use PC clusters to render extremely large data sets in interactive applications. This paper describes a sort-last parallel rendering system running on a PC cluster that is capable of rendering enormous amounts of geometry onto high-resolution tile displays by taking advantage of the spatial coherency that is inherent in our data. Furthermore, it is capable of scaling to larger sized input data or higher resolution displays by increasing the size of the cluster. Our prototype is now capable of rendering 120 million triangles per second on a 12 mega-pixel display.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - IEEE 2001 Symposium on Parallel and Large-Data Visualization and Graphics
EditorsStephen N. Spencer
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages85-92
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)0780372239, 9780780372238
DOIs
StatePublished - 2001
Externally publishedYes
EventIEEE Symposium on Parallel and Large-Data Visualization and Graphics - San Diego, United States
Duration: Oct 22 2001Oct 23 2001

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE 2001 Symposium on Parallel and Large-Data Visualization and Graphics

Conference

ConferenceIEEE Symposium on Parallel and Large-Data Visualization and Graphics
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Diego
Period10/22/0110/23/01

Keywords

  • Compositing
  • PC-Cluster
  • Parallel Rendering
  • Sort-Last
  • Tile Display

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