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Efficient MIMD architectures for high-performance ray tracing

Kopta et al., 2010

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5026800173948363019
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Kopta D
Spjut J
Brunvand E
Davis A
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2010 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design

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Ray tracing efficiently models complex illumination effects to improve visual realism in computer graphics. Typical modern GPUs use wide SIMD processing, and have achieved impressive performance for a variety of graphics processing including ray tracing. However …
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