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Parallel hierarchical radiosity on hybrid platforms

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Achieving an efficient realistic illumination is an important aim of research in computer graphics. In this paper a new parallel global illumination method for hybrid systems based on the hierarchical radiosity method is presented. Our solution allows the exploitation of systems that combine independent nodes with multiple cores per node. Thus, multiple nodes work in parallel in the computation of the global illumination for the same scene. Within each node, all the available computational cores are used through a shared-memory multithreading approach. The good results obtained in terms of speedup on several distributed-memory and shared-memory configurations show the versatility of our hybrid proposal.

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  1. Computer Architecture Group, Universidade da Coruña, Coruna, Spain

    Emilio J. Padrón, Margarita Amor, Gabriel Rodríguez & Ramón Doallo

  2. Computer Architecture Group, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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Padrón, E.J., Amor, M., Bóo, M. et al. Parallel hierarchical radiosity on hybrid platforms. J Supercomput 58, 357–366 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-011-0592-6

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