Understanding next-generation VR: classifying commodity clusters for immersive virtual reality

Commodity clusters offer the ability to deliver higher performance computer graphics at lower prices than traditional graphics supercomputers. Immersive virtual reality systems demand notoriously high computational requirements to deliver adequate real-time graphics, leading to the emergence of commodity clusters for immersive virtual reality. Such clusters deliver the graphics power needed by leveraging the combined power of several computers to meet the demands of real-time interactive immersive computer graphics. However, the field of commodity cluster-based virtual reality is still in early stages of development and the field is currently adhoc in nature and lacks order. There is no accepted means for comparing approaches and implementers are left with instinctual or trial-and-error means for selecting an approach. This paper provides a classification system that facilitates understanding not only of the nature of different clustering systems but also the interrelations between th...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: GRAPHITE
• Authors: Alexander Streit, Ruth Christie, Andy Boud
• Keywords: Commodity Clusters, Graphics, GRAPHITE 2004, Immersive Virtual Reality