PC clusters for virtual reality

Proceedings - IEEE Virtual Reality

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 215-222

  Raffin, Bruno ^a   Soares, Luciano ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

PC Clusters; Virtual Reality

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; DATA STRUCTURES; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PROJECTION SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

GRAPHICS CARDS; MULTI PROJECTOR IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENTS; PC CLUSTERS;

PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

EID: 33750105405     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VR.2006.107     Document Type: Conference Paper

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