A load-balancing strategy for sort-first distributed rendering

Brazilian Symposium of Computer Graphic and Image Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 292-299

  Abraham, Frederico ^a   Celes, Waldemar ^a   Cerqueira, Renato ^a   Campos, João Luiz ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHICS WORKSTATIONS; LOAD-BALANCING ALGORITHM; PROGRAMMABLE GRAPHICS PROCESSORS; RENDERING NODES;

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 16244378840     PISSN: 15301834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SIBGRA.2004.1352973     Document Type: Conference Paper

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