Search Results - "I.3.1 [Computer Graphics]: Hardware architecture-Parallel processing"

Performance Comparison of Bounding Volume Hierarchies and Kd-Trees for GPU Ray Tracing by Vinkler, Marek, Havran, Vlastimil, Bittner, Jiří

“…We present a performance comparison of bounding volume hierarchies and kd‐trees for ray tracing on many‐core architectures (GPUs). The comparison is focused on…”
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Memory Considerations for Low Energy Ray Tracing by Kopta, D., Shkurko, K., Spjut, J., Brunvand, E., Davis, A.

“…We propose two hardware mechanisms to decrease energy consumption on massively parallel graphics processors for ray tracing. First, we use a streaming data…”
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Parallel generation of architecture on the GPU by Steinberger, Markus, Kenzel, Michael, Kainz, Bernhard, Müller, Jörg, Peter, Wonka, Schmalstieg, Dieter

“…In this paper, we present a novel approach for the parallel evaluation of procedural shape grammars on the graphics processing unit (GPU). Unlike previous…”
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ManyLoDs: Parallel Many-View Level-of-Detail Selection for Real-Time Global Illumination by Hollander, Matthias, Ritschel, Tobias, Eisemann, Elmar, Boubekeur, Tamy

“…Level‐of‐Detail structures are a key component for scalable rendering. Built from raw 3D data, these structures are often defined as Bounding Volume…”
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Hierarchical Bucket Queuing for Fine‐Grained Priority Scheduling on the GPU by Kerbl, Bernhard, Kenzel, Michael, Schmalstieg, Dieter, Seidel, Hans‐Peter, Steinberger, Markus

“…While the modern graphics processing unit (GPU) offers massive parallel compute power, the ability to influence the scheduling of these immense resources is…”
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InK-Compact: In-Kernel Stream Compaction and Its Application to Multi-Kernel Data Visualization on General-Purpose GPUs by Hughes, D. M., Lim, I. S., Jones, M. W., Knoll, A., Spencer, B.

“…Stream compaction is an important parallel computing primitive that produces a reduced (compacted) output stream consisting of only valid elements from an…”
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A Parallel Approach to Compression and Decompression of Triangle Meshes using the GPU by Jakob, Johannes, Buchenau, Christoph, Guthe, Michael

“…Most state‐of‐the‐art compression algorithms use complex connectivity traversal and prediction schemes, which are not efficient enough for online compression…”
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Data-Parallel Decompression of Triangle Mesh Topology by Meyer, Quirin, Keinert, Benjamin, Sußner, Gerd, Stamminger, Marc

“…We propose a lossless, single‐rate triangle mesh topology codec tailored for fast data‐parallel GPU decompression. Our compression scheme coherently orders…”
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Dependency-Free Parallel Progressive Meshes by Derzapf, E., Guthe, M.

“…The constantly increasing complexity of polygonal models in interactive applications poses two major problems. First, the number of primitives that can be…”
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Parallel Partial Reduction for Large-Scale Data Analysis and Visualization by He, Wenbin, Guo, Hanqi, Peterka, Tom, Di, Sheng, Cappello, Franck, Shen, Han-Wei

“…We present a novel partial reduction algorithm to aggregate sparsely distributed intermediate results that are generated by data-parallel analysis and…”
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Coherent ray tracing via stream filtering by Gribble, C.P., Ramani, K.

“…We introduce an approach to coherent ray tracing based on a new stream filtering algorithm. This algorithm, which is motivated by breadth-first ray traversal…”
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Parallel Contour-Buildup algorithm for the molecular surface by Krone, M., Grottel, S., Ertl, T.

“…Molecular Dynamics simulations are an essential tool for many applications. The simulation of large molecules - like proteins - over long trajectories is of…”
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SIMD Packet Techniques for Photon Mapping by Singh, Shawn, Faloutsos, Petros

“…We present a novel photon mapping framework that uses single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) parallelism to accelerate the final gathering phase of photon…”
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Dynamic adaptation of broad phase collision detection algorithms by Avril, Q, Gouranton, Valérie, Arnaldi, B

“…In this paper we present a new technique to dynamically adapt the first step (broad phase) of the collision detection process on hardware architecture during…”
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Real-Time Weighted Pose-Space Deformation on the GPU by Rhee, Taehyun, Lewis, J.P., Neumann, Ulrich

“…WPSD (Weighted Pose Space Deformation) is an example based skinning method for articulated body animation. The per‐vertex computation required in WPSD can be…”
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ADR visualization: A generalized framework for ranking large-scale scientific data using Analysis-Driven Refinement by Nouanesengsy, Boonthanome, Woodring, Jonathan, Patchett, John, Myers, Kary, Ahrens, James

“…Prioritization of data is necessary for managing large-scale scientific data, as the scale of the data implies that there are only enough resources available…”
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