Active thread compaction for GPU path tracing

Proceedings - HPG 2011: ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on High Performance Graphics

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 51-58

  Wald, Ingo ^a  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PATH TRACING; SPEED-UPS;

COMPACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

WEAVING;

EID: 80052470693     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2018323.2018331     Document Type: Conference Paper

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