Parallel graphics and interactivity with the scaleable graphics engine

A parallel rendering environment is being developed to utilize the IBM Scaleable Graphics Engine (SGE), a hardware frame buffer for parallel computers. Goals of this software development effort include finding efficient ways of producing and displaying graphics generated on IBM SP nodes and of assis...

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Main Authors: Perrine, Kenneth A., Jones, Donald R.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Application software
buffer
Computational modeling
Computer graphics
Computing methodologies > Computer graphics > Graphics systems and interfaces
Computing methodologies > Modeling and simulation > Simulation types and techniques > Massively parallel and high-performance simulations
Computing methodologies > Parallel computing methodologies
Concurrent computing
Engines
frame
framework
Hardware
multithreaded
OpenGL
parallel
Programming profession
Rendering (computer graphics)
SMP
Social and professional topics > Professional topics > Management of computing and information systems > Software management
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management
Tunneling
visualization
Yarn
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Summary:A parallel rendering environment is being developed to utilize the IBM Scaleable Graphics Engine (SGE), a hardware frame buffer for parallel computers. Goals of this software development effort include finding efficient ways of producing and displaying graphics generated on IBM SP nodes and of assisting programmers in adapting or creating scientific simulation applications to use the SGE. Four software development phases discussed utilize the SGE: tunneling, SMP rendering, development of an OpenGL API implementation which utilizes the SGE in parallel environments, and additions to the SGE-enabled OpenGL implementation that uses threads. The performance observed in software tests show that programmers would be able to utilize the SGE to output interactive graphics in a parallel environment.
DOI:10.1145/582034.582039