A New Software Architecture for Ultra-large-scale Rendering Cloud

Author

Weini, Zhou ; Yongquan, Lu ; Pengdong, Gao ; Chu, Qiu ; Quan, Qi

Author_Institution

High Performance Comput. Center, Commun., Univ. of China, Beijing, China

fYear

2012

fDate

19-22 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

196

Lastpage

199

Abstract

A kind of new five-level software architecture is presented in this paper, which is designed elaborately for ultra-large-scale rendering cloud. This software architecture consists of five levels, infrastructure layer, rendering service layer, rendering application layer, service management and access interface. Based on the proposed software architecture, we have developed a new type of rendering management software called Golden Farm Cluster Rendering Platform. And comprehensive tests have been carried on the super computer, Tian He 1A. Experimental results show that Golden Farm can effectively manage the rendering jobs on ultra-large-scale high performance cluster with up to 2000 computing nodes and also obtain good performance. In addition, the platform has created an important record, rendering a 3D model by using 24000 CPU cores in parallel.

Keywords

parallel machines; rendering (computer graphics); software architecture; solid modelling; 3D model; CPU cores; TianHe 1A; access interface; five-level software architecture; golden farm cluster rendering platform; infrastructure layer; rendering application layer; rendering service layer; service management; super computer; ultra-large-scale rendering cloud; Animation; Computational modeling; Computers; Rendering (computer graphics); Scheduling; Software; Software architecture; Golden Farm; animation rendering; cluster rendering management platform; five-level architecture; rendering cloud;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing and Applications to Business, Engineering & Science (DCABES), 2012 11th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Guilin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2630-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DCABES.2012.10

Filename

6385270