Designing a Parallel Object Oriented Graphics Framework

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• Publication Type: Technical Report
• Workgroup(s)/Project(s): not specified
• Date: September 1998
• Number: TR-186-2-98-34
• Keywords: Object-Oriented Design, Parallelization, Graphics Framework

Abstract

This paper aims to present a design strategy for graphics frameworks, that facilitates easy parallelization. This is achieved by introducing two mechanisms for dealing with the main issues of parallelization, that can be seamlessly integrated into graphics frameworks which have been designed adhering to a few implementation rules. These two main mechanisms are Remote Access Nodes, that mainly deal with memory distribution and memory access, and Parallelizing Group Nodes, that deal with task generation and load balancing. These objects are designed to fit into object oriented, scene--graph based frameworks, which can be used as a basis for most graphics based algorithms.

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@techreport{Tobler-1998-DPO,
  title =      "Designing a Parallel Object Oriented Graphics Framework",
  author =     "Robert F. Tobler",
  year =       "1998",
  abstract =   "This paper aims to present a design strategy for graphics
               frameworks, that facilitates easy parallelization.  This is
               achieved by introducing two mechanisms for dealing with the
               main issues of parallelization, that can be seamlessly
               integrated into graphics frameworks which have been designed
               adhering to a few implementation rules.  These two main
               mechanisms are Remote Access Nodes, that mainly deal with
               memory distribution and memory access, and Parallelizing
               Group Nodes, that deal with task generation and load
               balancing.  These objects are designed to fit into object
               oriented, scene--graph based frameworks, which can be used
               as a basis for most graphics based algorithms.",
  month =      sep,
  number =     "TR-186-2-98-34",
  address =    "Favoritenstrasse 9-11/E193-02, A-1040 Vienna, Austria",
  institution = "Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms, Vienna
               University of Technology ",
  note =       "human contact: technical-report@cg.tuwien.ac.at",
  keywords =   "Object-Oriented Design, Parallelization, Graphics Framework",
  URL =        "https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/1998/Tobler-1998-DPO/",
}