• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.5-14
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• 2019

This paper proposes a remote partitioned rendering method for displaying 3D applications on large tiled displays, which were developed using the Unity game engine. With the proposed method, one can represent them without additional development or any modifications to the applications. The paper verifies its feasibility by applying to a sample Unity-based application.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.115-124
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• 2018

Various kinds of tile-based ultra-high resolution display devices have been developed by, for example, constructing display walls using many commodity LCD displays. To represent 3D applications like computer games on these devices, one has to develop 3D applications or develop particular APIs only for representing on these devices. If one can develop a distributed rendering system using legacy 3D APIs such as OpenGL and Direct3D by extending a remote rendering system, commercial computer games can be represented on such display devices without modifying their source codes. The purpose of the paper is to propose a new Dired3D-based distribute rendering system by extending a Direct3D-based remote rendering system and to show its feasibility technically by appling it to a sample Direct3D application and performing a few experimentations.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.91-93
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• 2001

볼륨 렌더링(Volume Rendering)은 과학, 의학, 공학 등의 분야에서 3차원 볼륨 데이터(Volume Date)를 효과적으로 시각화(Visualization)하는 목적으로 널리 사용되고 있으며 고화질 영상 요구로 인해 3차원 볼륨 데이터의 크기는 점차 대용량화되어 가는 추세이다. 이러한 대용량 데이터의 고성능 처리를 위해서는 병렬입출력이 필수적이다. 본 논문에서는 병렬볼륨 렌더링에 최적화된 병렬화일시스템 PBS(Parallel Block Server)을 제안한다. PBS는 고성능 입출력 제공을 위해서 데이터입출력에 대한 응용 프로그램의 집적 통제를 위한 다양한 기능을 제공하도록 설계되어 있다. 이러한 직접통제의 단점인 복잡한 인터페이스 문제를 해결하기 위해서 볼륨 렌더링에 최적화된 데이터 입출력 전략을 자동화시킨 PBS 기반 라이브러리 VRPIO(Volume Rendering Parallel Input Output)를 제공한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.20-24
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• 2006

In this paper, our research efforts and activities for displaying flight simulation graphics on multi-monitors connected to a Linux cluster is introduced. In this pilot system graphics rendering as well as view calculation including LOD implementation for each monitor is peformed on each sub-node computer connected to the monitor rather than using an expensive main server. The Linux cluster is constructed by combining general-purpose desktop computers, and MPI library Is used for communication between sub-nodes. It could be concluded from our experience that it is possible to construct a massive multi-monitor display system by adding to the cluster as many sub-node computers and monitors as possible with economic efficiency.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.286-299
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• 2006

Due to the continuing technical progress in the capabilities of modeling, simulation, and sensor devices, huge volume data with very high resolution are common. In scientific visualization, various interactive real-time techniques on high performance parallel computers to effectively render such large scale volume data sets have been proposed. In this paper, we present a mobile volume visualization system that consists of mobile clients, gateways, and parallel rendering servers. The mobile clients allow to explore the regions of interests adaptively in higher resolution level as well as specify rendering / viewing parameters interactively which are sent to parallel rendering server. The gateways play a role in managing requests / responses between mobile clients and parallel rendering servers for stable services. The parallel rendering servers visualize the specified sub-volume with rendering contexts from clients and then transfer the high quality final images back. This proposed system lets multi-users with PDA simultaneously share commonly interesting parts of huge volume, rendering contexts, and final images through CSCW(Computer Supported Cooperative Work) mode.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.33 no.1_2
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• pp.1-14
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• 2006

Sort-last parallel rendering using a cluster of GPUs has been widely used as an efficient method for visualizing large- scale volume datasets. The performance of this method is constrained by load balancing when data parallelism is included. In previous works static partitioning could lead to self-balance when only task level parallelism is included. In this paper, we present a load balancing scheme that adapts to the characteristic of volume dataset when data parallelism is also employed. We effectively combine the hierarchical data structures (octree and BSP tree) in order to skip empty regions and distribute workload to corresponding rendering nodes. Moreover, we also exploit a 3D clustering method to determine visibility order and save the AGP bandwidths on each rendering node. Experimental results show that our scheme can achieve significant performance gains compared with traditional static load distribution schemes.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.29 no.10
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• pp.582-588
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• 2002

Scalable displays generate large and high resolution images and provide an immersive environment. Recently, scalable displays are built on the networked clusters of PCs, each of which has a fast graphics accelerator, memory, CPU, and storage. However, the distributed rendering on clusters is a network bound work because of limited network bandwidth. In this paper, we present a new algorithm for reducing the network bandwidth and implement it with a conventional distributed rendering system. This paper describes the algorithm called geometry tracking that avoids the redundant geometry transmission by indexing geometry data. The experimental results show that our algorithm reduces the network bandwidth up to 42%.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.109-116
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• 2008

Even though many studies on parallel rendering based on PC clusters have been done. most of those did not cope with non-uniform scenes, where locations of 3D models are biased. In this work. we have built a PC cluster system with POV-Ray, a free rendering software on the public domain, and developed an adaptive load balancing scheme to optimize the parallel efficiency Especially, we noticed that a frame of 3D animation are closely coherent with adjacent frames. and thus we could estimate distribution of computation amount, based on the computation time of previous frame. The experimental results with 2 real animation data show that the proposed scheme reduces by 40% of execution time compared to the simple static partitioning scheme.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.712-714
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• 2005

Real-time 3D visualization of large datasets imposes a distributed architecture of the rendering system and dedicated hardware for image composition. Previous work on this domain has relied on prohibitively expensive cluster systems with hardware composition done by complicated schemes. In this paper we propose a low-cost hardware compositor fur a high performance visualization cluster. We show the system's design and the results obtained using Simulink [1] for our image composition scheme.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.37-44
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• 2009

This paper describes a new tiled display framework called, iTDF (Interactive Tiled Display Framework), that is designed to support rapid construction of the interactive digital 3D contents running on top of the cluster-based tiled display. This framework allows synchronizing the rendering slaves, sharing software's state over the network, the features, such as, launching multiple applications on a cluster-based computers, moving and resizing windows, synchronization of rendering slaves, distributed shared memory, and unified input interface. This paper analyzes the requirements of the framework and describes the design and implementation of the framework. A couple desktop-based applications are ported with the new iTDF and to find out the usefulness and usability of the framework.