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Performance issues of a distributed frame buffer on a multicomputer

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Bin Wei,

Douglas W. Clark,

Edward W. Felten,

Kai Li,

Gordon StollAuthors Info & Claims

HWWS '98: Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS workshop on Graphics hardware

Pages 87 - 96

https://doi.org/10.1145/285305.285316

Published: 01 August 1998 Publication History

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HWWS '98: Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS workshop on Graphics hardware

August 1998

160 pages

ISBN:158113097X

DOI:10.1145/285305

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Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab
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