H.E.L.P.-VRMunich 30 October 2000 High End Low Price Virtual Reality is an affordable high-end virtual reality system. Usual VR labs cost about US$ 10 to 15 million. Thus Siemens ZT decided to port VR on PC platforms.
The rendering for example is done distributedly. Different slaves compute the different projections. The advantage is that this system is highly scalable, due to its patent-pending PC cluster architecture, modular and easily fits the customers needs on different PCs. This was the situation where hpcLine comes in. Both partners dicussed realisation aspects. This solution is low cost, the maintenance is easy - changing the graphic card, mixed configurations, easy upgradable, easily transportable and safe for the future.
The integration of H.E.L.P.-VR on hpcLine was done. The 16 nodes with dual processors serve as the cluster, e.g. 4 nodes as visualisation system, 2 stereo or 4 mono projections. With inexpensive spectacles is was possible to see the 3-D structure of a building, a production hall.
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