On Provisioning Procedural Geometry Workloads on Edge Architectures

Information

• Publication Type: Conference Paper
• Workgroup(s)/Project(s):
  • Smart Communities and Technologies: 3D Spatialization
• Date: October 2021
• ISBN: 978-989-758-536-4
• Publisher: SciTePress
• Organization: INSTICC
• Lecturer: Ilir Murturi
• Event: 17th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - WEBIST
• Editor: Francisco Domínguez Mayo, Massimo Marchiori and Joaquim Filipe
• DOI: 10.5220/0010687800003058
• Call for Papers: Call for Paper
• Booktitle: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - WEBIST
• Pages: 6
• Conference date: 26. October 2021 – 28. October 2021
• Pages: 354 – 359
• Keywords: distributed systems, procedural geometry, rendering

Abstract

Contemporary applications such as those within Augmented or Virtual Reality (AR/VR) pose challenges for software architectures supporting them, which have to adhere to stringent latency, data transmission, and performance requirements. This manifests in processing 3D models, whose 3D contents are increasingly generated procedurally rather than explicitly, resulting in computational workloads (i.e., perceived as Procedural Geometry Workloads) with particular characteristics and resource requirements. Traditionally, executing such workloads takes place in resource-rich environments such as the cloud. However, the massive amount of data transfer, heterogeneous devices, and networks involved affect latency, which in turn causes low-quality visualization in user-facing applications (e.g., AR/VR). To overcome such challenges, processing elements available close to end users can be leveraged to generate 3D models instead, and as such the edge emerges as a central architectural entity. This paper describes such procedural geometry workloads, their particular characteristics, and challenges to execute them on heterogeneous devices. Furthermore, we propose an architecture capable of provisioning procedural geometry workloads in edge scenarios.

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• DOI: 10.5220/0010687800003058

BibTeX

@inproceedings{murturi_PGG,
  title =      "On Provisioning Procedural Geometry Workloads on Edge
               Architectures",
  author =     "Ilir Murturi and Chao Jia and Bernhard Kerbl and Michael
               Wimmer and Schahram Dustdar and Christos Tsigkanos",
  year =       "2021",
  abstract =   "Contemporary applications such as those within Augmented or
               Virtual Reality (AR/VR) pose challenges for software
               architectures supporting them, which have to adhere to
               stringent latency, data transmission, and performance
               requirements. This manifests in processing 3D models, whose
               3D contents are increasingly generated procedurally rather
               than explicitly, resulting in computational workloads (i.e.,
               perceived as Procedural Geometry Workloads) with particular
               characteristics and resource requirements. Traditionally,
               executing such workloads takes place in resource-rich
               environments such as the cloud. However, the massive amount
               of data transfer, heterogeneous devices, and networks
               involved affect latency, which in turn causes low-quality
               visualization in user-facing applications (e.g., AR/VR). To
               overcome such challenges, processing elements available
               close to end users can be leveraged to generate 3D models
               instead, and as such the edge emerges as a central
               architectural entity. This paper describes such procedural
               geometry workloads, their particular characteristics, and
               challenges to execute them on heterogeneous devices.
               Furthermore, we propose an architecture capable of
               provisioning procedural geometry workloads in edge
               scenarios.",
  month =      oct,
  isbn =       "978-989-758-536-4",
  publisher =  "SciTePress",
  organization = "INSTICC",
  event =      "17th International Conference on Web Information Systems and
               Technologies - WEBIST",
  editor =     " Francisco Dom\'{i}nguez Mayo, Massimo Marchiori and Joaquim
               Filipe",
  doi =        "10.5220/0010687800003058",
  booktitle =  "Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web
               Information Systems and Technologies - WEBIST",
  pages =      "6",
  pages =      "354--359",
  keywords =   "distributed systems, procedural geometry, rendering",
  URL =        "https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2021/murturi_PGG/",
}