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An accelerated remote graphics architecture for PDAS

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Fabrizio Lamberti,

Claudio Zunino,

Antonino Fiume,

Marco ManiezzoAuthors Info & Claims

Web3D '03: Proceedings of the eighth international conference on 3D Web technology

Pages 55 - ff

https://doi.org/10.1145/636593.636602

Published: 09 March 2003 Publication History

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A new category of devices, known as Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), has become increasingly widespread since the end of the nineties. A large number of software applications have been developed for PDAs, but high-quality 3D graphics still remain beyond the computational capability of these devices.This paper tackles this issue by proposing a generic solution for hardware-accelerated remote rendering on cluster. The rendering task is submitted to a PC/workstation cluster (each cluster machine is equipped by a graphics accelerator) by means of the Chromium architecture. Each machine renders a part of the image that is then reassembled and sent to the PDA via a software bridge. On the PDA side, the user can explore the scene using an ad-hoc navigation interface.The proposed solution allows to display extremely realistic and complex models in an interactive way. Moreover, our architecture does not depend on commercial solutions/products and can be easily modified in order to better fulfill requirements of specific applications.Computer GraphicsDistributed/network graphics Distributed SystemsDistributed applications

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