Design and implementation of a supercomputer frame buffer system

Author

Fowler, John D. ; McGowen, Michael

Author_Institution

Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA

fYear

1988

fDate

14-18 Nov 1988

Firstpage

140

Lastpage

147

Abstract

A 512-by-512-pixel by 8-bits-per-pixel frame buffer has been designed, constructed, and installed on a 48-Mb/s I/O channel of a Cray X-MP 4/16 supercomputer. This project was undertaken to test whether such a system would be useful and, if so, how it would be used. Supporting software provides the ability to convert vector graphics description files into raster format, to show raster movies interactively, and to show vector files by real-time conversion from vector to raster formats. It has been shown that real-time animations in an interactive supercomputer environment is feasible and useful with this system

Keywords

computer graphic equipment; mainframes; 256 Kpixels; 48 Mbit/s; 512 pixels; Cray X-MP 4/16 supercomputer; I/O channel; interactive supercomputer environment; raster format; raster movies; real-time animations; real-time conversion; supercomputer frame buffer system; vector files; vector graphics description files; Application software; Bit rate; Computer graphics; Computer networks; Hardware; Local area networks; Spatial resolution; Supercomputers; Time sharing computer systems; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Supercomputing '88. [Vol.1]., Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-8186-0882-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SUPERC.1988.44647

Filename

44647