Re: [Chromium-users] Question regarding Chromium

[Sean A. <ah...@or...>]

These questions are better addressed to the Chromium User's mailing list 
at chr...@li....  I've redirected it there.

Won J Jeon wrote:
> My name is Won Jeon and I'm a postdoc in the Department of Computer 
> Science at the Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I'm currently 
> building a rendering proxy to support multiple clients. The problem is 
> that the rendering is a system bottleneck, so I'd like to think about 
> using Chromium for fast parallel rendering. I have some questions 
> regarding this.
>  
> 1. Can I use Chromium without any modification of (legacy) rendering 
> applications?

Yes.

> 2. How does Chromium aggregate the horsepower of multiple graphics 
> accelerators in clusters?

There are many different ways it can harness this parallelism, depending 
on your configuration file.  It can do planar sort first geometry 
distribution. It can do sort-last parallel compositing.  It can do many 
other variations.

> 3. Can Chromium divide their rendering tasks into different machines in 
> the cluster, not based on tiles (rendering location), but based on 
> rendering objects?

Probably.  You might have to write a custom SPU to identify the 
rendering objects, but I think this is do-able in the Chromium 
infrastructure.

-Sean

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