A SELF-ADAPTIVE SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT FOR CLUSTER-BASED DISPLAY SYSTEMS

Accession number;05A0212984
Title;A SELF-ADAPTIVE SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT FOR CLUSTER-BASED DISPLAY SYSTEMS
Author; HASHIMOTO N (Tokyo Inst. Technol., Yokohama, Jpn) ISHIDA Y (Tokyo Inst. Technol., Yokohama, Jpn) SATO M (Tokyo Inst. Technol., Yokohama, Jpn)
Journal Title;IEIC Technical Report (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers)
Journal Code:S0532B
ISSN:0913-5685
VOL.104;NO.545(IE2004 145-173);PAGE.75-80(2005)
Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.9, REF.13
Pub. Country;Japan
Language;English
Abstract;In this paper, we propose a self-adaptive software environment for PC cluster-based display systems, which enables us to use general 3-D applications for COTS (Commodity Off-The-Shelf) PCs. By interrupting API (Application Program Interface) of some libraries and OS, this environment provides the applications with parallel processing, synchronization and modification which is unique to the PC clusters. This strategy requires no special modifications of the applications' source codes. Therefore, various applications developed for conventional PC environments and provided only with binary codes as most commercial software are automatically applied for latest cluster-based display systems. (author abst.)