OpenGL Multipipe SDK: A Toolkit for Scalable Parallel Rendering

We describe OpenGL Multipipe SDK (MPK), a toolkit for scalable parallel rendering based on OpenGL. MPK provides a uniform application programming interface (API) to manage scalable graphics applications across many different graphics subsystems. MPKbased applications run seamlessly from single-processor, singlepipe desktop systems to large multi-processor, multipipe scalable graphics systems. The application is oblivious of the system configuration, which can be specified through a configuration file at run time. To scale application performance, MPK uses a decomposition system that supports different modes for task partitioning and implements optimized GPU-based composition algorithms. MPK also provides a customizable image composition interface, which can be used to apply post-processing algorithms on raw pixel data obtained from executing sub-tasks on multiple graphics pipes in parallel. This can be used to implement parallel versions of any GPUbased algorithm, not necessarily used...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: VIS
• Authors: Praveen Bhaniramka, Philippe C. D. Robert, Stefan Eilemann
• Keywords: Scalable Graphics Api, Scalable Graphics Applications, Scalable Graphics Systems, VIS 2005, Visualization