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Distributed Rendering Engine

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Advanced Environments, Tools, and Applications for Cluster Computing (IWCC 2001)

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This paper present aspects of architecture of a cluster of workstations developed using ATM and FastEthernet technology and some of the basic principles of distributed memory programming, based on message-passing. The team used an application called Parallel POV-Ray rendering engine to show the viability of the “PoliCluster”.This paper will describe the performance improvement that the Cluster architecture brought to this particular application. A significant role in choosing this particular application as an example was the natural parallelism of the rendering engine.

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  1. Computer Science Department, POLITEHNICA University Bucharest, Splaiul Independentei 313, Bucuresti, Romania

    Nicolae Tapus, Emil Slusanschi & Tudor Popescu

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  1. Computer Science Department, University College Cork, College Road, Cork, Ireland

    Dan Grigoras

  2. Information and Computer Science Department, University of California, 444 Computer Science Building, Irvine, CA, 92697-3425, USA

    Alex Nicolau

  3. Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale de Lille (LIFL), University Lille 1, 59655, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

    Bernard Toursel

  4. LIP, University Paris 6, 8, rue du Capitaine Scott, 75015, Paris, France

    Bertil Folliot

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Tapus, N., Slusanschi, E., Popescu, T. (2002). Distributed Rendering Engine. In: Grigoras, D., Nicolau, A., Toursel, B., Folliot, B. (eds) Advanced Environments, Tools, and Applications for Cluster Computing. IWCC 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2326. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47840-X_21

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