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DPGL: The Direct3D9-based parallel graphics library for multi-display environment

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The emergence of high performance 3D graphics cards has opened the way to PC clusters for high performance multidisplay environment. In order to exploit the rendering ability of PC clusters, we should design appropriate parallel rendering algorithms and parallel graphics library interfaces. Due to the rapid development of Direct3D, we bring forward DPGL, the Direct3D9-based parallel graphics library in D3DPR parallel rendering system, which implements Direct3D9 interfaces to support existing Direct3D9 application parallelization with no modification. Based on the parallelism analysis of Direct3D9 rendering pipeline, we briefly introduce D3DPR parallel rendering system. DPGL is the fundamental component of D3DPR. After presenting DPGL three layers architecture, we discuss the rendering resource interception and management. Finally, we describe the design and implementation of DPGL in detail, including rendering command interception layer, rendering command interpretation layer and rendering resource parallelization layer.

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This work was supported by National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2002CB312105) and Key National Natural Science Foundation of China Project on Digital Olympic Museum (No. 60533080).

Zhen Liu received her B. Sc. degree from Shandong University of Science and Technology (SDUST), China, in 2000 and the M. Sc. degree from SDUST in 2003. She is currently a Ph. D. student in State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, China.

Her research interests include computer graphics, especially virtual reality such as PC cluster-based distributing graphics rendering, parallel computing, etc.

Jiao-Ying Shi graduated from Department of Physics at Leningrad University of USSR in 1960. He was the director of State Key Lab of CAD&CG at Zhejiang University from 1989 to 1998. He is now a professor of the Department of Computer Science and Technology and State Key Lab of CAD&CG.

He has published more than 100 papers and two books. His current research interests include CAD&CG, parallel computing, scientific visualization and virtual environment.

Prof. Shi is the Deupty Chairman of China Society of Image and Graphics, the Deputy Chairman of China CAD and Graphics Society under China Computer Federation. The State Key Lab of CAD&CG he has led was evaluated as one of top 10 excellent research labs in China.

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Liu, Z., Shi, JY. DPGL: The Direct3D9-based parallel graphics library for multi-display environment. Int J Automat Comput 4, 30–37 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-007-0030-7

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