Megakernels considered harmful: Wavefront path tracing on GPUs

Proceedings - High-Performance Graphics 2013, HPG 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 137-144

  Laine, Samuli ^a   Karras, Tero ^a   Aila, Timo ^a  

^a NVIDIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex materials; GPU; Path tracing

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX MATERIALS; EXECUTION MODEL; GPU; HIGH BANDWIDTH; MEMORY SYSTEMS; PATH TRACING; PERFORMANCE PENALTIES; REAL-WORLD;

PROGRAM PROCESSORS; WAVEFRONTS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT;

EID: 84882407229     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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