Chromium Renderserver: Scalable and Open Source Remote Rendering Infrastructure
Brian E. Paul, Sean D. Ahern, E. Wes Bethel, Eric Brugger, Rich Cook, Jamison Daniel, Ken Lewis, Jens Owen, Dale Southard · University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas) · 2007
Chromium Renderserver (CRRS) is software infrastructure that provides the ability for one or more users to run and view image output from unmodified, interactive OpenGL and X11 applications on a remote, parallel computational platform equipped with graphics hardware accelerators via industry-standard Layer 7 network protocolsand client viewers. The new contributions of this work include a solution to the problem of synchronizing X11 and OpenGL command streams, remote delivery of parallel hardware-accelerated rendering, and a performance analysis of several different optimizations that are generally applicable to a variety of rendering architectures. CRRSis fully operational, Open Source software.