Integration of a Commodity Cluster into an Existing 4-Wall Display System
Douglas B. Maxwell, Aaron Bryden, Greg S. Schmidt, Ian Roth, and J. Edward Swan II. Integration of a Commodity Cluster into an Existing 4-Wall Display System. In Workshop on Commodity-Based Visualization Clusters, Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2002, October 2002.
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Abstract
Not all virtual reality applications today require the power or expense of single large visualization "supercomputers". Factors such as frame rate and polygon count have a major impact upon the performance of a VR application. Increasingly, low cost commodity consumer electronics and computing technology are becoming powerful enough to present an acceptable level of graphics performance. Already, commodity PCs are driving virtual reality workbenches with stereo and tracking options. The next step is to have them drive multi-screen environ-ments. We present an experiment motivated by the low cost per performance of PC commodity clusters. The experiment is to replace a visualization super-computing platform driving a 4-wall immersive display system [1] with a PC commodity cluster. We describe the system, implementation and experimental testing in the paper.
BibTeX
@InProceedings{IEEEVIS02-cc,
author = {Douglas B. Maxwell and Aaron Bryden and Greg S. Schmidt and
Ian Roth and J. Edward {Swan~II}},
title = {Integration of a Commodity Cluster into an Existing 4-Wall Display System},
booktitle = {Workshop on Commodity-Based Visualization Clusters,
Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2002},
location = {Boston, Massachusetts, USA},
date = {October 27},
month = {October},
year = 2002,
abstract = {
Not all virtual reality applications today require the power or expense of
single large visualization "supercomputers". Factors such as frame rate and
polygon count have a major impact upon the performance of a VR application.
Increasingly, low cost commodity consumer electronics and computing technology
are becoming powerful enough to present an acceptable level of graphics
performance. Already, commodity PCs are driving virtual reality workbenches
with stereo and tracking options. The next step is to have them drive
multi-screen environ-ments.
We present an experiment motivated by the low cost per performance of PC
commodity clusters. The experiment is to replace a visualization super-computing
platform driving a 4-wall immersive display system [1] with a PC commodity
cluster. We describe the system, implementation and experimental testing in the
paper.
},
}