TY  - CHAP
U1  - Konferenzveröffentlichung
A1  - Beck, Nils
A1  - Hinkenjann, André
T1  - DiReC – Distributing the Render Cache to PC-Clusters for Interactive Environments
T2  - VRST ’05. Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology. November 7–9, 2005, Monterey, California, USA
N2  - The Render Cache [1,2] allows the interactive display of very large scenes, rendered with complex global illumination models, by decoupling camera movement from the costly scene sampling process. In this paper, the distributed execution of the individual components of the Render Cache on a PC cluster is shown to be a viable alternative to the shared memory implementation.As the processing power of an entire node can be dedicated to a single component, more advanced algorithms may be examined. Modular functional units also lead to increased flexibility, useful in research as well as industrial applications.We introduce a new strategy for view-driven scene sampling, as well as support for multiple camera viewpoints generated from the same cache. Stereo display and a CAVE multi-camera setup have been implemented.The use of the highly portable and inter-operable CORBA networking API simplifies the integration of most existing pixel-based renderers. So far, three renderers (C++ and Java) have been adapted to function within our framework.
KW  - Algorithms
KW  - Performance
KW  - Clusters
KW  - Render Cache
Y1  - 2005
SN  - 1-59593-098-1
SB  - 1-59593-098-1
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1145/1101616.1101650
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1145/1101616.1101650
SP  - 159
EP  - 162
PB  - ACM
ER  -