Exploiting parallelism in geometry processing with general purpose processors and floating-point SIMD instructions

• Published in: IEEE transactions on computers Vol. 49; no. 9; pp. 934 - 946
• Main Authors: Chia-Lin Yang, Sano, B., Lebeck, A.R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.09.2000; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: 3-D graphics; Application software; Computational geometry; Computer graphics; Cycle time; Dynamic scheduling; Floating point arithmetic; Geometry; Hardware; Microarchitecture; Parallel processing; Performance enhancement; Processor scheduling; Processors; Reduced instruction set computing; Rendering; Rendering (computer graphics); Tasks; Three dimensional

Three-dimensional (3D) graphics applications have become very important workloads running on today's computer systems. A cost-effective graphics solution is to perform geometry processing of 3D graphics on the host CPU and have specialized hardware handle the rendering task. In this paper, we a...