darken@eesun.gwu.edu (Rudolph Darken) (03/16/91)
I was just wondering what sort of work has been done in VR on a parallel machine. How 'parallelizeable' is it? Would a massively parallel machine like the CM offer any added speed that would (or could) significantly improve a VR environment? Rudy Darken darken@seas.gwu.edu
dormer@cs.purdue.edu (John Dormer) (03/18/91)
In article <18543@milton.u.washington.edu> darken@eesun.gwu.edu (Rudolph Darken) writes: > > Would a massively parallel machine like the CM offer any added >speed that would (or could) significantly improve a VR environment? > >Rudy Darken >darken@seas.gwu.edu And for another question, has anyone played with getting more information out of such machines? They are quite excellent numeric devices, but I have seen examples of high-bandwidth requiring programs which die because they can't get to the external hardware as quickly (reading data files from a harddrive). With all those CPUs, certainly some of them could be made into IO processors (or told to be IO processors). I don't know enough about the CM hardware...perhaps one of you does? John Dormer dormer@medusa.cs.purdue.edu