Distributed Graphics Pipelines on the Grid

• Published in: IEEE distributed systems online Vol. 8; no. 1; p. 1
• Main Authors: Fewings, A.J., John, N.W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Alamitos IEEE 01.01.2007; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Chromium; Computation; Computer graphics; Computer networks; Data engineering; Data visualization; Devices; distributed graphics; distributed systems; High performance computing; network graphics; Pipelines; Processor scheduling; Rendering (computer graphics); Software standards; Supercomputers; systems and software; Training simulators; Visualization; Weight reduction
• ISSN: 1541-4922; 1541-4922; 1558-1683
• DOI: 10.1109/MDSO.2007.4

jgViz uses standard grid technologies and Chromium cluster graphics software to schedule the best available distributed graphics pipeline. Visualization of large data sets using computer graphics techniques has become a mainstream requirement for many scientists and engineers. However, achieving interactive performance when rendering a complex visualization often requires high-performance computing facilities. One solution is to exploit real-time graphics accelerators, which are used in the full range of computing devices from games consoles and set-top boxes to supercomputers and advanced training simulators. At the same time, the service infrastructure for distributed networks has produced the third generation of the connected world: the grid. jgViz, our Java-implemented grid visualization system, uses grid functionality to enable transparent access to reliable parallel graphics pipelines. Lightweight and highly portable, jgViz aims to be plug-and-play for the existing grid resource allocation mechanism