Browsing virtual reality on a PC cluster

Author

Guarracino, M.R. ; Laccetti, G. ; Romano, D.

Author_Institution

Center for Res. on Parallel Comput. & Supercomput., CNR, Naples, Italy

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

201

Lastpage

208

Abstract

VRML is the standard language to build a virtual reality system, i.e. a language to describe 3D objects and interactive worlds. To use such a system, among the other tools, a browser is needed in order to access the information in the VRML files and to visualize the virtual world from a human perspective. This paper describes the implementation of a VRML parallel browser based on a modified version of graphics libraries, such as OpenGL and GLUT. The obtained interactive parallel rendering engine has been developed for a message passing computing environment; a detailed analysis of its performance on a PC cluster is also described

Keywords

message passing; parallel processing; rendering (computer graphics); software libraries; software performance evaluation; virtual reality languages; workstation clusters; 3D objects; GLUT; OpenGL; PC cluster; VRML; graphics libraries; interactive parallel rendering engine; interactive worlds; message passing; parallel browser; performance; personal computer cluster; virtual reality browsing; Concurrent computing; Engines; Graphics; Humans; Libraries; Message passing; Performance analysis; Rendering (computer graphics); Virtual reality; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cluster Computing, 2000. Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chemnitz

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0896-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLUSTR.2000.889041

Filename

889041