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Nirnimesh
dblp:81/2693
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
0since 2021 · last 2007
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 first-author
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Computer graphics and multimedia
1 paper |
Visualization and visual analytics · 50% Rendering · 50% | |
| Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper |
Distributed systems · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Rendering › large-scale scene rendering
scalable rendering |
0.1 | 1 | 2007 | Garuda: A Scalable Tiled Display Wall Using Commodity PCs · IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 2007 |
Visualization and visual analytics › display technology
tiled display wall |
0.1 | 1 | 2007 | Garuda: A Scalable Tiled Display Wall Using Commodity PCs · IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 2007 |
Distributed systems › distributed system architecture
client-server systems |
0.0 | 1 | 2007 | Garuda: A Scalable Tiled Display Wall Using Commodity PCs · IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 2007 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
scene graph · 0.1multicast protocol · 0.1frustum culling · 0.1
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Garuda: A Scalable Tiled Display Wall Using Commodity PCsabstractCluster-based tiled display walls can provide cost-effective and scalable displays with high resolution and a large display area. The software to drive them needs to scale too if arbitrarily large displays are to be built. Chromium is a popular software API used to construct such displays. Chromium transparently renders any OpenGL application to a tiled display by partitioning and sending individual OpenGL primitives to each client per frame. Visualization applications often deal with massive geometric data with millions of primitives. Transmitting them every frame results in huge network requirements that adversely affect the scalability of the system. In this paper, we present Garuda, a client-server-based display wall framework that uses off-the-shelf hardware and a standard network. Garuda is scalable to large tile configurations and massive environments. It can transparently render any application built using the Open Scene Graph (OSG) API to a tiled display without any modification by the user. The Garuda server uses an object-based scene structure represented using a scene graph. The server determines the objects visible to each display tile using a novel adaptive algorithm that culls the scene graph to a hierarchy of frustums. Required parts of the scene graph are transmitted to the clients, which cache them to exploit the interframe redundancy. A multicast-based protocol is used to transmit the geometry to exploit the spatial redundancy present in tiled display systems. A geometry push philosophy from the server helps keep the clients in sync with one another. Neither the server nor a client needs to render the entire scene, making the system suitable for interactive rendering of massive models. Transparent rendering is achieved by intercepting the cull, draw, and swap functions of OSG and replacing them with our own. We demonstrate the performance and scalability of the Garuda system for different configurations of display wall. We also show that the server and network loads grow sublinearly with the increase in the number of tiles, which makes our scheme suitable to construct very large displays. Nirnimesh, Pawan Harish, P. J. Narayanan |
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. | 1 |