A Distributed Frame Buffer within a Window-Oriented High Performance Graphics System

Haaker, Thomas; Selzer, Harald; Joseph, Hans

A Distributed Frame Buffer within a Window-Oriented High Performance Graphics System

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Date

1989

Authors

Haaker, Thomas
Selzer, Harald
Joseph, Hans

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

Today's workstation users demand high computational performance combined with powerful graphics and a comfortable window system. Existing and forthcoming standards like OKS-3D, PHIOS/PHIGS+, X Window System, and PEX have to be supported optimally.This paper presents the architecture of a graphics engine designed to meet the above requirements. Utilizing a distributed frame buffer pixel access with a high bandwidth is achieved. Several functions of a window management system like clipping at arbitrarily shaped window boundaries, fast copying of windows and performing Bit-Block-Transfer operations (BitBIT) are performed by hardware. Finally, a homogeneous and load-adaptive multiprocessor configuration for geometry and rendering calculation is described.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/EGGH/EGGH89/261-274
,
booktitle = {Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware
},
editor = {Richard Grimsdale and Wolfgang Strasser
},
title = {{A Distributed Frame Buffer within a Window-Oriented High Performance Graphics System
}},
author = {Haaker, Thomas and 
Selzer, Harald and 
Joseph, Hans
},
year = {1989
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-3471
},
ISBN = {ISBN 3-540-53473-3
},
DOI = {/10.2312/EGGH/EGGH89/261-274
}
}