Title
A processor architecture with effective memory system for sort-last parallel rendering
Abstract
In this paper, a consistency-free memory architecture for sort-last parallel rendering processors with a single frame buffer is proposed to resolve the consistency problem which may occur when more than one rasterizer try to access the data at the same address. Also, the proposed architecture reduces the latency due to pixel cache misses because the rasterizer does not wait until cache miss handling is completed when the pixel cache miss occurs. For these goals, a consistency-free pixel cache architecture and three effective memory systems with consistency-test units are presented. The experimental results show that the proposed architecture can achieve almost linear speedup up to four rasterizers with a single frame buffer.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/11682127_12
ARCS
Keywords
Field
DocType
linear speedup,consistency-free memory architecture,processor architecture,consistency problem,consistency-test unit,pixel cache,single frame buffer,sort-last parallel rendering,effective memory system,consistency-free pixel cache architecture,proposed architecture,parallel rendering
Uniform memory access,Cache pollution,Computer science,Cache,Parallel computing,Cache-only memory architecture,Real-time computing,Cache algorithms,Non-uniform memory access,Cache coloring,Smart Cache
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
3894
0302-9743
3-540-32765-7
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
10
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Woo-Chan Park110819.82
Duk-Ki Yoon201.01
Kil-Whan Lee3183.29
Il-San Kim4142.82
Kyung-Su Kim519617.05
Won-Jong Lee612913.38
Tack-Don Han735166.39
Sung-bong Yang815021.83