Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a storage device, a mapping module, and a packet processor. During operation, the mapping module maintains a first and a second mappings. The first mapping, which can be in the storage device, is between a first service tunnel identifier and a first virtual local area network (VLAN) identifier. The second mapping is between the first VLAN identifier and an indicator, which indicates whether the switch is elected as a designated forwarder of multi-destination traffic for the first service tunnel identifier. If the indicator indicates that the switch is the designated forwarder of multi-destination traffic for the first service tunnel identifier, the packet processor determines an egress port, which corresponds to the first service tunnel, for a packet belonging to multi-destination traffic of the first VLAN.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and a system for computer graphics animation, and in particular a method and a system for intelligent scalable animation with intelligent parallel processing engine and intelligent animation engine. The present invention provides a novel client-server architecture for scalable computer animation particularly adapted to computer animation. The animation tasks are identified as those that scale well and those that do not, and scalable animation tasks are sent to servers while non-scalable tasks are sent to the client. For computing animation tasks at the servers, the present invention provides a novel, intelligent parallel processing distribution engine that distributes the scalable animation tasks among several servers highly efficiently.