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3-D Graphics Rendering Using LINUX CLUSTERS

3-D Graphics Rendering Using LINUX CLUSTERS. Arjun Jain & Harish G. Naik R. V. College of Engineering, Bangalore. Contents. Brief Introduction to Clusters Parallel Virtual Machines (Introduction & setup) Ray-Tracing PVM Pov-Ray Demo. Parallel Virtual Machine( Introduction ).

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3-D Graphics Rendering Using LINUX CLUSTERS

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  1. 3-D Graphics Rendering Using LINUX CLUSTERS Arjun Jain & Harish G. Naik R. V. College of Engineering, Bangalore

  2. Contents • Brief Introduction to Clusters • Parallel Virtual Machines (Introduction & setup) • Ray-Tracing • PVM Pov-Ray • Demo

  3. Parallel Virtual Machine(Introduction) • System of Heterogeneous nodes • Message passing system • Carry out parallel computation

  4. Parallel Virtual Machine(Setup) 1. Download pvm3.4.0.tgz into your user directory (e.g. /home/aj). 2. Add the following to your .bash_profile file PVM_ROOT=$HOME/pvm3 PVM_DPATH=$PVM_ROOT/lib/pvmd PVM_ARCH=LINUX export PVM_ROOT PVM_DPATH PVM_ARCH 3. Logout and then login again as your username to install the new environment. 4. Now untar the PVM files with tar -zxvf pvm3.4.0.tgz

  5. 5. Change directory into /pvm3 6. Run make and let the compile proceed. 7. When complete move back to your home directory and issue the pvm command. You should see the pvm prompt. If so all is well. Type halt to exit pvm. 8. Repeat this on each of the machines in the cluster. 9. Now test that you can add machines to the cluster. Say $pvm pvm.hosts and check configuration at pvm prompt by: pvm>conf and you should be getting something like: 3 hosts, 1 data format HOST DTID ARCH SPEED arjun 40000 SUNMP 1000 harish 80000 SUNMP 1000 aj c0000 SUNMP 1000 Parallel Virtual Machine(Setup)

  6. Ray Tracing • Generated by tracing rays of light • Reads from a source file • Generated in computer memory • Output written to file or screen

  7. POV-Ray • Persistence Of Vision Raytracer • 3-dimensional raytracing engine • Simulates the way light interacts • Creates 3-D pictures and animation • Images are photo realistic

  8. PVMPOV • Rendering on heterogeneous systems • Parallel option only if - +N option • Else as a single task • Centralized scheme • 1-master many slaves • Master divides image into blocks • Blocks are assigned to slaves

  9. PVMPOV(contd...) • Sent back to master after rendering • Master combines to form one image • Master may or may not render • Rendering possible even if a slave fails • Starts slaves at reduced priority • If master fails – slaves time out

  10. PVM-POV(Setting up) • Download sources • POV-Ray sources : povuni_s.tgz • PVMPOV sources : pvmpov-3.1g2.tgz • Unpack sources • Patching PVMPOV • Build PVMPOV • Install Binaries

  11. PVM-POV(Using) • Add hosts to pvm.hosts • Start PVM • $ pvm pvm.hosts • Locate PVM object script files • Start PVMPOV • $ pvmpov <script file> <options>

  12. Demo • Povray on Uniprocessor system • PVM-Pov on PVM Cluster

  13. Conclusion • Clusters can be easily setup • Can be used for other applications • Others - LAM, OpenMosix etc.

  14. Sources : • www.povray.org - POVRAY sources for UNIX • PVM homehttp://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm/pvm_home.html • PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine - A User's Guide and Tutorial for Networked Parallel Computing, Al Geist, Adam Beguelin, Jack Dongarra, Robert Manchek, Weicheng Jiang and Vaidy Sunderam, MIT Press. Available athttp://www.netlib.org/ • PVMPOV from sunsite.unc.edu

  15. Reach us : • Harish G. Naik, VII semester CSE, RVCE • harishgnaik@yahoo.com • http://harishnaik.8m.net • Arjun Jain, V Semester CSE, RVCE • arjun_jain@yahoo.com

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