Driving tiled displays with an extended chromium system based on stream cached multicast communication

Parallel Computing

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 438-466

  Lorenz, Mario ^a   Brunnett, Guido ^a   Heinz, Marcel ^a  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Multicast transmission of OpenGL command streams; Rendering on tiled displays; Software based synchronization of buffer swap operations; Sort first architectures based on Chromium's Tilesort SPU; Stream caching and culling methods to reduce network bandwidth used

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; MULTICASTING; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SYNCHRONIZATION;

BUFFER SWAP OPERATIONS; MULTICAST TRANSMISSION; REDUNDANT TRANSMISSIONS; STREAM CACHING; TILED DISPLAYS;

DISPLAY DEVICES;

EID: 34248999196     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parco.2007.02.016     Document Type: Article

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