Elsevier

Computer-Aided Design

Volume 26, Issue 12, December 1994, Pages 876-882
Computer-Aided Design

Data management scheme for parallel radiosity

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Abstract

The radiosity method is a very demanding process in terms of computing and memory resources. To cope with these problems, parallel solutions have been proposed in the literature. A new parallel solution, based on the use of a shared virtual memory, is proposed. It will be shown that this concept of SVM greatly simplifies the implementation of a parallel algorithm since distributed data are managed by the operating system. This new parallel radiosity algorithm has been implemented on an iPSC/2 hypercube using the Koan SVM. The first results obtained with this algorithm are encouraging since the calculated efficiency curve is nearly linear.

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    a

    Kadi Bouatouch is currently a professor at the University of Rennes 1, France, and a reserccher at IRISA. His research interests include computer graphics and global illumination models. He is an electronics and automated systems engineer (ENSEM, 1974). He was awarded a doctorate in engineering in 1977, and a higher doctorate in computer science in the field of computer graphics in 1989.

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    Thierry Priol is currently a senior research scientist at the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, France. He is working on the design of parallel programming environments for massively parallel architectures and on parallel algorithms for computer graphics. He received a PhD in computer science from the University of Rennes 1, France, in 1989 in the field of computer graphics and parallel processing.

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