In the design of a graphic processing unit(GPU),the processing speed of triangle rasterization is an important factor that determines the performance of the GPU.An architecture of a multi-tile parallel-scan rasterizat...In the design of a graphic processing unit(GPU),the processing speed of triangle rasterization is an important factor that determines the performance of the GPU.An architecture of a multi-tile parallel-scan rasterization accelerator was proposed in this paper.The accelerator uses a bounding box algorithm to improve scanning efficiency.It rasterizes multiple tiles in parallel and scans multiple lines at the same time within each tile.This highly parallel approach drastically improves the performance of rasterization.Using the 65 nm process standard cell library of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation(SMIC),the accelerator can be synthesized to a maximum clock frequency of 220 MHz.An implementation on the Genesys2 field programmable gate array(FPGA)board fully verifies the functionality of the accelerator.The implementation shows a significant improvement in rendering speed and efficiency and proves its suitability for high-performance rasterization.展开更多
Abrupt near-surface temperature changes in mountainous areas are a special component of the mountain climate system.Fast and accurate measurements of the locations,intensity,and width of the near-surface changes are n...Abrupt near-surface temperature changes in mountainous areas are a special component of the mountain climate system.Fast and accurate measurements of the locations,intensity,and width of the near-surface changes are necessary but highly difficult due to the complicated environmental conditions and instrumental issues.This paper develops a spatial pattern recognition method to measure the near-surface high temperature increase(NSHTI),one of the lesser-attended changes.First,raster window measurement was proposed to calculate the temperature lapse rate using MODIS land surface temperature and SRTM DEM data.It fully considers the terrain heights of two neighboring cells on opposite or adjacent slopes with a moving window of 3×3 cell size.Second,a threshold selection was performed to identify the NSHTI cells using a threshold of-0.65℃/100 m.Then,the NSHTI strips were parameterized through raster vectorization and spatial analysis.Taking Yunnan,a mountainous province in southwestern China,as the study area,the results indicate that the NSHTI cells concentrate in a strip-like pattern along the mountains and valleys,and the strips are almost parallel to the altitude contours with a slight northward uplift.Also,they are located mostly at a 3/5 height of high mountains or within 400 m from the valley floors,where the controlling topographic index is the altitude of the terrain trend surface but not the absolute elevation and the topographic uplift height and cutting depth.Additionally,the NSHTI intensity varies with the geographic locations and the proportions increase with an exponential trend,and the horizontal width has a mean of about 1000 m and a maximum of over 5000 m.The result demonstrates that the proposed method can effectively recognize NSHTI boundaries over mountains,providing support for the modeling of weather and climate systems and the development of mountain resources.展开更多
基金the Scientific Research Program Funded by Shaanxi Provincial Education Department(20JY058)。
文摘In the design of a graphic processing unit(GPU),the processing speed of triangle rasterization is an important factor that determines the performance of the GPU.An architecture of a multi-tile parallel-scan rasterization accelerator was proposed in this paper.The accelerator uses a bounding box algorithm to improve scanning efficiency.It rasterizes multiple tiles in parallel and scans multiple lines at the same time within each tile.This highly parallel approach drastically improves the performance of rasterization.Using the 65 nm process standard cell library of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation(SMIC),the accelerator can be synthesized to a maximum clock frequency of 220 MHz.An implementation on the Genesys2 field programmable gate array(FPGA)board fully verifies the functionality of the accelerator.The implementation shows a significant improvement in rendering speed and efficiency and proves its suitability for high-performance rasterization.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 42061004)the Joint Special Project of Agricultural Basic Research of Yunnan Province (Grant No. 202101BD070001093)the Youth Special Project of Xingdian Talent Support Program of Yunnan Province
文摘Abrupt near-surface temperature changes in mountainous areas are a special component of the mountain climate system.Fast and accurate measurements of the locations,intensity,and width of the near-surface changes are necessary but highly difficult due to the complicated environmental conditions and instrumental issues.This paper develops a spatial pattern recognition method to measure the near-surface high temperature increase(NSHTI),one of the lesser-attended changes.First,raster window measurement was proposed to calculate the temperature lapse rate using MODIS land surface temperature and SRTM DEM data.It fully considers the terrain heights of two neighboring cells on opposite or adjacent slopes with a moving window of 3×3 cell size.Second,a threshold selection was performed to identify the NSHTI cells using a threshold of-0.65℃/100 m.Then,the NSHTI strips were parameterized through raster vectorization and spatial analysis.Taking Yunnan,a mountainous province in southwestern China,as the study area,the results indicate that the NSHTI cells concentrate in a strip-like pattern along the mountains and valleys,and the strips are almost parallel to the altitude contours with a slight northward uplift.Also,they are located mostly at a 3/5 height of high mountains or within 400 m from the valley floors,where the controlling topographic index is the altitude of the terrain trend surface but not the absolute elevation and the topographic uplift height and cutting depth.Additionally,the NSHTI intensity varies with the geographic locations and the proportions increase with an exponential trend,and the horizontal width has a mean of about 1000 m and a maximum of over 5000 m.The result demonstrates that the proposed method can effectively recognize NSHTI boundaries over mountains,providing support for the modeling of weather and climate systems and the development of mountain resources.
