Chromium Renderserver: Scalable and Open Remote Rendering Infrastructure

Abstract-Chromium Renderserver (CRRS) is software infrastructure that provides the ability for one or more users to run and view image output from unmodified, interactive OpenGL and X11 applications on a remote, parallel computational platform equipped with graphics hardware accelerators via industry-standard Layer 7 network protocols and client viewers. The new contributions of this work include a solution to the problem of synchronizing X11 and OpenGL command streams, remote delivery of parallel hardware-accelerated rendering, and a performance analysis of several different optimizations that are generally applicable to a variety of rendering architectures. CRRS is fully operational, Open Source software.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: TVCG
• Authors: Brian E. Paul, Sean Ahern, E. Wes Bethel, Eric Brugger, Rich Cook, Jamison Daniel, Ken Lewis, Jens Owen, Dale Southard
• Keywords: OpenGL Command Streams, Parallel Computational Platform, Parallel Hardware-accelerated Rendering, TVCG 2008