MPI and POV-Ray parallel solution to improve performance of photo-realistic rendering utilizing Albacore and Sequoia

Author

O´Keeffe, Shawn E. ; Breland, Jason ; Shiratuddin, Mohd Fairuz

Author_Institution

Sch. of Constr., Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2012

fDate

12-14 June 2012

Firstpage

973

Lastpage

978

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to improve current photo-realistic rendering techniques of 3D computer generated images. Recent serial program techniques include `rendering-farms´ that consist of numerous topologically linked computers to improve performance, cost, and rendering time. The contribution of this research is to utilize the rendering farm philosophy, by utilizing parallel computing techniques and multi-thread processing. This research correlates the new parallel performance with traditional serial approach. This paper presents the cost, parallel overhead, and efficiency of rendering on Sequoia. The implementation of higher-level languages and how a message can be passed efficiently are described. A comparison between both serial and parallel code has also been made.

Keywords

image processing; message passing; multi-threading; rendering (computer graphics); 3D computer generated image; Albacore; MPI-POVRAY parallel solution; Sequoia; cost; higher-level language; message passing; multithread processing; parallel code; parallel computing; parallel overhead; parallel performance; photo-realistic rendering technique; rendering efficiency; rendering farm philosophy; rendering time; serial code; serial program technique; Rendering (computer graphics);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer & Information Science (ICCIS), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpeu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1937-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCISci.2012.6297167

Filename

6297167