A review on light transport algorithms and simulation tools to model daylighting inside buildings

M Ayoub - Solar Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
The behavior of daylight inside built settings, though complex, is well understood; and over
past years, designers and researchers investigated different tools and methodologies to …

Toward real-time ray tracing: A survey on hardware acceleration and microarchitecture techniques

Y Deng, Y Ni, Z Li, S Mu, W Zhang - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2017 - dl.acm.org
Ray tracing has long been considered as the next-generation technology for graphics
rendering. Recently, there has been strong momentum to adopt ray tracing--based …

Dynamically specialized datapaths for energy efficient computing

V Govindaraju, CH Ho… - 2011 IEEE 17th …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to limits in technology scaling, energy efficiency of logic devices is decreasing in
successive generations. To provide continued performance improvements without …

Relax: An architectural framework for software recovery of hardware faults

M De Kruijf, S Nomura, K Sankaralingam - ACM SIGARCH Computer …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
As technology scales ever further, device unreliability is creating excessive complexity for
hardware to maintain the illusion of perfect operation. In this paper, we consider whether …

RayCore: A ray-tracing hardware architecture for mobile devices

JH Nah, HJ Kwon, DS Kim, CH Jeong, J Park… - ACM Transactions on …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
We present RayCore, a mobile ray-tracing hardware architecture. RayCore facilitates high-
quality rendering effects, such as reflection, refraction, and shadows, on mobile devices by …

[PDF][PDF] Parallel SAH kD tree construction.

B Choi, R Komuravelli, V Lu, H Sung… - High performance …, 2010 - Citeseer
The kD tree is a well-studied acceleration data structure for ray tracing. It is used to organize
primitives in a scene to allow efficient execution of intersection operations between rays and …

A first-order fine-grained multithreaded throughput model

XE Chen, TM Aamodt - 2009 IEEE 15th International …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Analytical modeling is an alternative to detailed performance simulation with the potential to
shorten the development cycle and provide additional insights. This paper proposes …

T&I engine: Traversal and intersection engine for hardware accelerated ray tracing

JH Nah, JS Park, C Park, JW Kim, YH Jung… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Ray tracing naturally supports high-quality global illumination effects, but it is
computationally costly. Traversal and intersection operations dominate the computation of …

TRaX: A multicore hardware architecture for real-time ray tracing

J Spjut, A Kensler, D Kopta… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Threaded Ray eXecution (TRaX) is a highly parallel multithreaded multicore processor
architecture designed for real-time ray tracing. The TRaX architecture consists of a set of …

Dual streaming for hardware-accelerated ray tracing

K Shkurko, T Grant, D Kopta, I Mallett… - Proceedings of High …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Hardware acceleration for ray tracing has been a topic of great interest in computer
graphics. However, even with proposed custom hardware, the inherent irregularity in the …