DDDDRRaW: A prototype toolkit for distributed real-time rendering on commodity clusters

Proceedings - 15th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Nguyen, T D ^a   Peery, C ^a   Zahorjan, J ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER COMPUTING;

COMMODITY CLUSTERS; HARDWARE RESOURCES; NETWORK ADAPTERS; PARTITIONING ALGORITHMS; REAL-TIME RENDERING; SPECIFIC WORKS; TECHNOLOGY SPECTRUM; WORKSTATION CLUSTERS;

RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS);

EID: 0242622258     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2001.924941     Document Type: Conference Paper

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