20. Ray Tracing with Network Linda
R.D. Bjornson, Craig Kolb, Andrew H. Sherman · Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics eBooks · 1996
Editorial preface Ray tracing, which is part of the overall field of visualization, is a computationally demanding task and thus a logical candidate for parallelization. A network of workstations is employed concurrently to solve the ray tracing problem. Using the programming language Linda, which offers an abstract view of parallelism different from normal message-passing, speedups of 30 on 40 workstations are achieved.