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The production of realistic images generated by computer requires a huge amount of computation. The use of highly parallel computers allows this process to be performed faster. Distributed memory parallel computers (DMPCs) offer an attractive performance/cost ratio. However, several crucial problems have to be solved efficiently: load balancing and data domain decomposition. This article gives an overview of different solutions to these problems in order to parallelize the ray-tracing algorithm on MIMD DMPCs.
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Priol, T. (1993). High Quality Image Synthesis on Distributed Memory Multiprocessors. In: Özgüner, F., Erçal, F. (eds) Parallel Computing on Distributed Memory Multiprocessors. NATO ASI Series, vol 103. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58066-6_16
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