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 …
past years, designers and researchers investigated different tools and methodologies to …
Toward real-time ray tracing: A survey on hardware acceleration and microarchitecture techniques
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 …
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 …
successive generations. To provide continued performance improvements without …
Relax: An architectural framework for software recovery of hardware faults
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 …
hardware to maintain the illusion of perfect operation. In this paper, we consider whether …
RayCore: A ray-tracing hardware architecture for mobile devices
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 …
quality rendering effects, such as reflection, refraction, and shadows, on mobile devices by …
[PDF][PDF] Parallel SAH kD tree construction.
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 …
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 …
shorten the development cycle and provide additional insights. This paper proposes …
T&I engine: Traversal and intersection engine for hardware accelerated ray tracing
Ray tracing naturally supports high-quality global illumination effects, but it is
computationally costly. Traversal and intersection operations dominate the computation of …
computationally costly. Traversal and intersection operations dominate the computation of …
TRaX: A multicore hardware architecture for real-time ray tracing
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 …
architecture designed for real-time ray tracing. The TRaX architecture consists of a set of …
Dual streaming for hardware-accelerated ray tracing
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 …
graphics. However, even with proposed custom hardware, the inherent irregularity in the …