A compute unified system architecture for graphics clusters incorporating data locality

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 605-617

  Mller, Christoph ^a   Frey, Steffen ^a   Strengert, Magnus ^a   Dachsbacher, Carsten ^a   Ertl, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

GPU computing; Graphics clusters; Parallel programming

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DEVELOPERS; COMMUNICATION MECHANISMS; DATA LOCALITY; DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT; FUNCTION SETS; GPU COMPUTING; GRAPHICS CLUSTERS; GRAPHICS PROCESSOR; NETWORK INTERCONNECTS; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING MODEL; PCI BUS; SCHEDULING MECHANISM; UNIFIED SYSTEM;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); SCALABILITY;

PARALLEL PROGRAMMING;

EID: 67649372913     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2008.188     Document Type: Article

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