Performance Analysis of a 3D Parallel Volume Rendering Application on Scalable Tiled Displays (original) (raw)

Current high-speed general-purpose networks, such as 1Gigabit/10Gibabit networks, are fast enough to handle the demanding tasks of routing streams of graphics primitives. Systems built with such networks and off-the-shelf GPUs and PCs, are being used to provide graphics clusters, which are more economical than expensive graphics supercomputers. Further, the current trend in building high-resolution display systems is to tightly couple inexpensive LCD/TFT monitors to provide a large-scale high-resolution display system for detailed scientific visualizations with an increased pixel density, such as the GeoWall (3) or Lightning-2 (9). The graphics clusters can drive the large-scale high- resolution display systems to possibly replace the limited output resolution of standard devices such as monitors and video projectors. A graphics cluster with new display technology and off-the-shelf, inexpensive components has made possible affordable large-scale high-resolution display systems. In t...