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Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE symposium on Parallel visualization and graphics table of contents

San Francisco, California, United States

Pages 55-59

Year of Publication: 1999

ISBN:1-58113-237-9

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Alan Heirich	Tandem Laboratories, Compaq Computer Corporation, 19333 Vallco Parkway, Cupertino, CA
Laurent Moll	Systems Research Center, Compaq Computer Corporation, 130 Lytton Ave, Palo Alto, CA

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SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
IEEE-CS\TCCG : TC on Computer Graphics

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IEEE Computer Society Washington, DC, USA

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This paper describes a visualization architecture for scalable computer systems. The architecture is currently being prototyped for use in Beowulf-class clustered systems. A set of OpenGL frame buffers are driven in parallel by a set of CPUs. The visualization architecture merges the contents of these frame buffers by user-programmable associative and commulative combining operations. The system hardware is built from off-the-shelf components including OpenGL accelerators, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), and gigabit network interfaces and switches. A second-generation prototype supports 60 Hz operation at 1024 × 1024 pixel resolution with interactive latency up to 1000 nodes.

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