A Performance-Based Policy for Job Assignment under Distributed Rendering Environments

Abstract:

Based on the characteristics of rendering phase, a performance-based policy for job assignment under Distributed Rendering Environments (DREs) is proposed. Firstly, a method of evaluating rendering nodes is designed by taking CPU ratio, RAM size, CPU occupation, RAM usage into account. Furthermore, the corresponding algorithm of job assignment for dividing rendering tasks into sub-tasks on available rendering nodes is presented. Whats more, this algorithms correctness is validated by three groups of experiments thereby which offers quantitative guide for optimal job assignment of rendering.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 543-547)
• Pages: 2949-2952
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.543-547.2949
• Online since: March 2014
• Authors: Zhi Guo Hong*, Yong Bin Wang, Min Yong Shi
• Keywords: Computation-Intensive, Job Assignment, Performance Evaluation, Rendering

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