Parallel programming with coordination structures
POPL '91 Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
Improved multithreading techniques for hiding communication latency in multiprocessors
ISCA '92 Proceedings of the 19th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
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Ray-tracing is often suggested as a problem which is well suited for execution on multiprocessors. It is characterized by having abundant parallelism, a very small sequential part, and aggravatingly long run-times. For simple will behaved scenes, linear speedup is easily achievable. However for realistic scenes which are typically both complex and non-uniformly distributed, parallel ray-tracing is a challenging problem. This thesis evaluates and compares implementations of a sophisticated ray-tracer on both shared memory and distributed memory machines.