Accession Number:

ADA090949

Title:

Interactive Computer Graphics.

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. 1 Jan 75-30 Jun 80,

Corporate Author:

BROWN UNIV PROVIDENCE RI DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

Personal Author(s):

• VAN Dam,Andries

Report Date:

1980-10-24

Pagination or Media Count:

11.0

Abstract:

The goal of our research in distributed processing is to evolve fundamental concepts as well as implementation techniques for improving system performance by judicious runtime distribution of functions to processors and to levels of a hierarchical operating system. This distribution of computing tasks among the various processors in a network or among the many levels of a hierarchical operating system in a single computer is a critical issue in current and future military, industrial and educational computer systems. Our approach is to provide the applications programmer with tools that allow both the estimation of performance improvements of potential migrations, either horizontal inter-processor or vertical intra-processor, and the implementation of the most promising migrations. Author

Descriptors:

• *COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
• *COMPUTER GRAPHICS
• *INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS
• COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS
• REAL TIME
• COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
• DATA ACQUISITION
• DATA STORAGE SYSTEMS
• MULTIPROCESSORS
• HIERARCHIES
• TIME SHARING
• NETWORK FLOWS

Subject Categories:

• Computer Programming and Software
• Computer Hardware
• Computer Systems

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE