• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.60-68
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• 2012

This paper describes design and implementation of a distributed rendering management system using existing rendering module. Currently, most of 3D commercial software provide modeling, rendering and distributed environment in the whole package. So, the server and client should use the given renderer as is, without the required features. In this paper, we propose a distributed rendering management system that consist of rendering module and distributed rendering client-server. The rendering module can be executed independently and managed by the distributed rendering client. The server requests rendering for each connected client. After the execution, the server gathers rendering result from each client. After gathering, the server provides the rendering result to the user.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.77-82
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• 2023

Multi-cloud rendering has been attracting attention recently as the computational load of rendering fluctuates over time and each rendering process can be performed independently. However, it is challenging in multi-cloud rendering to deliver large amounts of input data instantly with consistency constraints. In this paper, we develop a new distributed file system for multi-cloud rendering. In our file system, a local machine maintains a file server that manages versions of rendering input files, and each cloud node maintains a rendering cache manager, which performs distributed cooperative caching by considering file versions. Measurement studies with rendering workloads show that the proposed file system performs better than NFS and the uploading schemes by 745% and 56%, respectively, in terms of I/O throughput and execution time.

• 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 Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.1-8
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• 2019

Recently, avionics has been migrating from a federated architecture to an integrated modular architecture based on a multi-core to reduce the number of systems, weight, power consumption, and platform redundancy. The volume of data which must bo provided to the pilot through the display device has increased, because an integrated single device performs multiple functions. For this reason, the volume of data processed by the graphic processor within a fixed operation period has increased. In this paper, we provide a multi-core-based rendering engine in to perform more graphics processing within a fixed operation period. We assume the proposed method uses a multi-core-based partitioning operating system using the AMP (Asymmetric Multi-Processing) architecture.

• 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.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.1397-1398
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• 2011

고해상도 타일 디스플레이 기술은 사용자에게 넓은 시야각과 높은 정밀도를 제공하여 가상현실 시스템 개발을 위해 널리 활용되고 있다. 이러한 VR 용 타일 디스플레이 시스템 구축을 위해 일반적으로 분산형 PC 클러스터 방식이 주로 이용되나, 추가적인 멀티채널 모듈이 필요하고 시스템의 운영과 관리가 어려운 단점이 있다. 최근에는 하나의 전용 그래픽 워크스테이션을 이용하여 다중 디스플레이가 가능한 방식이 소개되고 있지만, 그 출력 갯수가 제한적이다. 본 연구에서는 하나의 워크스테이션으로 운영되는 렌더링 시스템과 다수의 타일 스크린 장치를 확장성 있게 연결하기 위해, 다중 디스플레이 영상처리 장치를 도입하여 가상현실 시스템을 구축하고, 간단한 실시간 렌더링 프로그램의 구동을 통해 그 성능과 응용 가능성을 확인하고자 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.255-258
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• 2001

광선추적기법은 사진과 같은 고해상도의 영상을 만들어내는 렌더링 기법중의 하나이다. 이 기법은 이미지를 합성하는데 많은 양의 계산 시간을 필요로 한다. 병렬처리 기법이 광선추적에 계산양의 처리 기간을 감소하기 위하여 사용될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 병렬 광선추적 기법을 MPI(Message Passing Interface)를 사용하여 IBM Supercomputer 상에서 노드의 개수의 증가에 따른 속도 향상과 노드간에 전달되는 메시지의 크기에 따른 성능 향상을 실험하였다. 본 논문에서 실험한 병렬 광선 추적 기법으로 IBM SP 시스템 상에서 다양한 영상을 생성하였다. 영상은 분할가능하고 노드에 분배할 수 있기 때문에 병렬화 범주에 들 수 있으며 부하균형을 맞출 수 있다. 실험에서 프로세서수의 증가에 따른 이상적인 속도향상률(Speed-up rate)을 15개의 프로세서를 사용하여 얻을 수 있었다. 광선을 추적하여 영상을 합성해 낼 때 표현하고자 하는 영상이 단순한 객체로 이루어져 있다면 각 노드에 분산해줘야 할 작업의 크기는 복잡한 객체들로 구성된 영상보다 클 때 더 놓은 성능을 나타내었다. 분산작업의 크기가 작아 상대적으로 통신횟수가 증가할 때 렌더링시 효율저하를 나타내었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10b
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• pp.259-261
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 네트워크를 통해 공유되는 가상공간에 참가자가 분신(아바타) 또는 실물 동영상의 형태로 자유로이 참가하여 가상세계를 현실감 있게 공유할 수 있는 시스템을 제안한다. Java3D를 이용하여 컴퓨터그래픽과 실영상을 실시간에 합성 렌더링함으로써 3차원 가상공간을 구현하고 있다. 분산환경에서의 실험을 통해 기술적 가능성을 제시한다.