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An Efficient Parallel Ray Tracing Scheme for Highly Parallel Architectures

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Advances in Computer Graphics Hardware V

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The production of realistic image generated by computer requires a huge amount of computation and a large memory capacity. The use of highly parallel computers allows this process to be performed faster. Distributed memory parallel computers (DMPCs), such as hypercubes or transputer-based machines, offer an attractive performance/cost ratio when the load balancing has been balance and the partition of the data domain has been performed. This paper presents a parallel ray tracing algorithm for DMPC using a Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) which solves these two classical problems. This algorithm has been implemented on a hypercube iPSC/2 and results are given.

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  1. School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, University of Sussex, BN1 9QT, Falmer, Brighton, UK

    Richard L. Grimsdale

  2. Computer Science Department, State University of New York, 11794-4400, Stony Brook, NY, USA

    Arie Kaufman

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Badouel, D., Priol, T. (1992). An Efficient Parallel Ray Tracing Scheme for Highly Parallel Architectures. In: Grimsdale, R.L., Kaufman, A. (eds) Advances in Computer Graphics Hardware V. EurographicSeminars. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76777-7_8

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