An Efficient Massively Parallel Rasterization Scheme For a High Performance Graphics System

Karpf, S.; Chaillou, C.

An Efficient Massively Parallel Rasterization Scheme For a High Performance Graphics System

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Date

1992

Authors

Karpf, S.
Chaillou, C.

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

We present in this paper the IMOGENE II system, a massively parallelMulti-SIMD graphics system. This architecture uses a new rasterization scheme combining Object Parallelism and Parallel Virtual Buffers. This scheme leads to a better efficiency than other massively parallel SHvlD systems, and allows a cost-effective, powerful and easily expandable system to be designed. The system consists of several SIMD ScanConversionPipelines each connected to a Multi-Level Virtual Buffer, a Shading Unitcomputing true Phong Shading, a Virtual Accumulation Frame Buffer for anti-aliasing,and a. classical Frame Buffer.

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