Performance Issues of a Distributed Frame Buffer on a Multicomputer

9/29/98


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Table of Contents

Performance Issues of a Distributed Frame Buffer on a Multicomputer

Computer Graphics on Multicomputers

Current Approaches

Distributed Frame Buffer

Performance Issues

PPT Slide

DFB Synchronization Issue

Frame Buffer Design Consideration

Topology-Dependent Network Flush

Synchronization Algorithm

RAIN System Structure

RAIN Datapath

PPT Slide

PPT Slide

Software Support for DFB

Scenes

Scene Characteristics

Performance

Synchronization Time

Rendering in Sort-middle

Random Triangles in Sort-middle

Rendering in Sort-last

Random Triangles in Sort-last

Related Work

Conclusions

Future Work

Acknowledgement

Author: Bin Wei