Improving hybrid distributed architectures for interactive terrain visualization

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• 作者：Ricardo Olanda ; Mariano Pérez ; Juan M. Orduña…
• 关键词：Interactive terrain visualization ; Computer graphics ; Hybrid computer architectures
• 刊名：The Journal of Supercomputing
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：73
• 期：1
• 页码：17-28
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• 刊物类别：Computer Science
• 刊物主题：Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Processor Architectures; Computer Science, general;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-0484
• 卷排序：73

文摘

Interactive 3D terrain visualization plays an important role in multiple networked applications like virtual worlds visualization, multiplayer games or distributed simulators. Since the client/server architecture has obvious scalability limitations, different peer-to-peer schemes have been proposed as trade-off solutions that yield good robustness, availability and scalability for this kind of systems. In this paper, we propose a new hybrid distributed architecture that significantly improves the scalability and performance of the existing proposals. The proposed scheme redesigns the relationships between the different elements of a hybrid architecture, modifies the information shared by each client with its neighboring peers and varies the messages exchanged among them, providing a larger number of users with a fluid navigation experience over a large virtual terrain.