TY  - CONF
A1  - Gerdau, Björn Ludolf
A1  - Weier, Martin
A1  - Hinkenjann, André
T1  - Containerized Distributed Rendering for Interactive Environments
T2  - Barbic, D'Cruz et al. (Eds.): Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. 14th EuroVR International Conference, EuroVR 2017, Laval, France, December 12-14, 2017, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol 10700
N2  - Development and rapid prototyping for large interactive environments like tiled-display walls pose many challenges. One is the heterogeneity of the various applications and libraries. A visual application tailored for a single monitor setup with a certain software environment is difficult to port and distribute to a multi-display, multi-PC setup. As a solution to this problem, we explore the potential of lightweight containerization techniques for distributed interactive applications. In particular, we present how the necessary runtime and build environments including libraries and drivers can be abstracted using the Docker framework. We demonstrate the packing of an existing single-machine GPU-enabled ray tracer inside a container to be used on tiled display walls. The performance measurements reveal that the containerization has a negligible impact on the system’s performance but allows for easy setup, integration, and distribution of complex applications.
KW  - Computer Graphics
KW  - VR system design
KW  - Tiled-display walls
KW  - Containerization
KW  - Distributed rendering
KW  - Docker
KW  - Virtual Reality
Y1  - 2017
UR  - https://pub.h-brs.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3459
SN  - 978-3-319-72322-8
SP  - 69
EP  - 86
PB  - Springer
ER  -