DocumentCode
958643
Title
A Multi-Microprocessor GKS Workstation
Author
Goebel, Martin ; Kroemker, Detlef
Author_Institution
Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
Volume
6
Issue
7
fYear
1986
fDate
7/1/1986 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
54
Lastpage
60
Abstract
Implementers of graphical application sytems hesitate to interface their applications to the GKS standard not only because GKS functionality seems to be less suffcient for a particular application but also because the use of GKS-as it is offered in portable software implementions-uaually means a loss of system performance. This article describes an installation of GKS on a multi-microprocessor that is based on functional distribution principles as well as on the object-oriented distribution of a graphics system. The main concepts and advantages of a GKS workstation using more than one processing unit with at least one output pipeline are described. The flexibility of this approach opens a perspective view to a GKS workststion that is configurable to application requirements.
Keywords
Application software; Computer displays; Computer graphics; Hardware; Pipelines; Standards development; System performance; User interfaces; Very large scale integration; Workstations;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0272-1716
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MCG.1986.276818
Filename
4056944
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