Design and implementation of a large-scale hybrid distributed graphics system

Eurographics Workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualization

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 39-49

  Yang, Jian ^a   Shi, Jiaoying ^a   Jin, Zhefan ^a   Zhang, Hui ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Geometry Compression; Global Share; Image Composition; Image Compression; Large scale Cluster Rendering; Logical Timestamp; Memory Explosion; Parallel Rendering; Remote Graphics; Tiled Displays; Virtual Graphics

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED GRAPHICS SYSTEM;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0036986279     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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