FlowVR: a Middleware for Large
Scale Virtual Reality Applications
Jérémie Allard,
Valérie
Gouranton, Loïck Lecointre,
Sébastien Limet,
Emmanuel Melin, Bruno Raffin,
Sophie Robert
Abstract
This paper introduces FlowVR, a
middleware dedicated to virtual reality applications distributed on
clusters or grid environments. FlowVR supports coupling of
heterogeneous parallel codes and is component oriented to favor code
reuse. While classical communication paradigms focus on either a
synchronous approach (FIFO channels) or an asynchronous one (sampling),
FlowVR enables a large range of intermediate policies to better balance
the application performance between levels of details, latencies and
refresh rates.