Image parallel ray tracing using static load balancing and data prefetching

Parallel Computing

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 861-872

  Yoon, Hyeon Ju ^a   Eun, Seongbae ^b   Cho, Jung Wan ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Hannam University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Data prefetching; Parallel rendering; Ray tracing; Static load balancing

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA TRANSFER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

DATA PREFETCHING BY MULTICASTING (DPM); IMAGE PARALLEL RAY TRACING; PARALLEL RENDERING; STATIC LOAD BALANCING;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031191220     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8191(97)00030-6     Document Type: Article

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