Stingray: cone tracing using a software DSM for SCI clusters
Alexandre Meyer, Emmanuel Cecchet · 2001
In this paper we consider the use of a supercomputer with a hardware shared memory versus a cluster of workstations using a software Distributed Shared Memory (DSM). We focus on ray tracing applications to compare both architectures. We have ported Stingray, a parallel cone tracer developed on a SGI Origin 2000 supercomputer, on a cluster using a Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) network and a software DSM called SciFS.