An Efficient Parallel Ray Tracing Scheme for Highly Parallel Architectures

Badouel, Didier; Priol, Thierry

An Efficient Parallel Ray Tracing Scheme for Highly Parallel Architectures

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Date

1990

Authors

Badouel, Didier
Priol, Thierry

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

The production of realistic image generated by computer requires a huge amount of computation and a large memory capacity. The use of highly parallel com puters allows this process to be performed faster. Distributed memory parallel computers (DMPCs), such as hypercubes or transputer-based machines, offer an attractive perfor mance/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.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/EGGH/EGGH90/093-106
,
booktitle = {Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware
},
editor = {Richard Grimsdale and Arie Kaufman
},
title = {{An Efficient Parallel Ray Tracing Scheme for Highly Parallel Architectures
}},
author = {Badouel, Didier and 
Priol, Thierry
},
year = {1990
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-3471
},
ISBN = {3-540-54291-4
},
DOI = {/10.2312/EGGH/EGGH90/093-106
}
}