OpenGL multipipe SDK: A toolkit for scalable parallel rendering

Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 16-

  Bhaniramka, Praveen ^a   Robert, Philippe C D ^a,b   Eilemann, Stefan ^a,c  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Immersive Environments; Parallel Rendering; Scalable Graphics Hardware; Scalable Rendering

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API); GRAPHICS CONFIGURATION INTERFACE; PIXEL DATA; SINGLE-PROCESSORS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; OPTIMIZATION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING;

EID: 33749429837     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VIS.2005.72     Document Type: Conference Paper

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