Equalizer - Parallel Rendering

Continuing our set of movies, below is a video showing automatic database load-balancing. Furthermore, this is a fairly new feature, just checked in yesterday. To my knowledge, Equalizer is the only toolkit on the market doing this (unless you count MPK ). The only thing required from the application is the capability to use a [...]

DB load-balancing for Polygonal Rendering Polygonal rendering using two gpus and dynamic DB (sort-last) load-balancing. The tiling is adapted each frame automatically and transparently to the application by Equalizer. The data set has 7.2M ... [More] triangles, and is colored differently on each GPU to illustrate the task decomposition. Data set courtesy of XYZ RGB, Inc. From: Eyescale Views: 547 0 ratings Time: 01:03 More in Science & Technology [Less]

And another video, 2D load-balancing with eVolve:

2D load-balancing for Volume Rendering Volume rendering using three gpus and dynamic 2D load-balancing. The tiling is adapted each frame automatically and transparently to the application by Equalizer. The data set has 256^3 voxels, and is ... [More] rendered using 2560 slices using the evolve scalable volume renderer. Data set courtesy of General Electric, USA. From: Eyescale Views: 1225 1 ratings Time: 01:04 More in Science & Technology [Less]

2D (sort-first) Parallel Polygon Rendering 2D (or sort-first) parallel rendering task decomposition using Equalizer parallel rendering framwork. All rendering tasks execute on a single machine for demonstration purposes. A deployment configuration ... [More] would use one GPU per window to parallelize the rendering. Data set courtesy of Cyberware. From: Eyescale Views: 1392 1 ratings Time: 01:04 More in Science & Technology [Less]

Here is the next Equalizer video - Database decomposition with eVolve:

DB (sort-last) Parallel Volume Rendering Parallel Volume Rendering using DB (sort-last) task decomposition with the Equalizer parallel rendering framework. Data set courtesy of Computer Science Institute, University of Freiburg, Germany. From: Eyescale Views: 445 0 ratings Time: 01:04 More in Science & Technology

I’ve started uploading some parallel rendering videos to youtube, showing Equalizer in action. I’ll post them here as they become ready. Here is the first one, showing static 2D decomposition - enjoy! Note: If the annotation overlays do not show up in the embedded version, click on the video to see it on the youtube site. [...]

The web (well, a small part of it) has been abuzz with a new company claiming to provide ‘a near-linear to above-linear increase in performance’. The solution consist of a chip in front of the graphics cards, which ‘decomposes a complex scene into well-balanced parallel tasks, and then recompose each task into the correct final image [...]

I’ve created a new poll to get a feeling which scenegraph integration is most wanted in Equalizer. We’ve like to get a feeling where the biggest need is to port scene-graph based OpenGL applications to multi-GPU systems and visualization clusters. Unfortunately I can’t embed the poll in this posting, so just weasel over to the Equalizer [...]