Benchmarking of parallel ray tracing using different load granularity

Author

Mujagic, E. ; Demir, Ali ; Omerbegovic, Nedim ; Mujalo, Edin ; Kozar, Maja ; Nosovic, Novica

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf., Univ. of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina

fYear

2013

fDate

20-24 May 2013

Firstpage

1264

Lastpage

1267

Abstract

This paper examines the efficiency of different load granularity in ray tracing. Benchmarking of image rendering using raytracing algorithm with different load balancing scenarios is presented. Open source Monte Carlo raytracer was modified in order to enable measurement of individual thread execution time. It is showed that, with specific load balancing scenarios, specific threads´ idle time can be reduced and thus overall program execution time improved. The presented results are analyzed and future work suggested.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; benchmark testing; image processing; ray tracing; resource allocation; time measurement; benchmarking; image rendering; load granularity; open source Monte Carlo raytracer; parallel ray tracing algorithm; program execution time; thread execution time measurement; Image color analysis; Instruction sets; Load management; Ray tracing; Reflection; Rendering (computer graphics); Time measurement; Ray tracing; benchmarking; load balancing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information & Communication Technology Electronics & Microelectronics (MIPRO), 2013 36th International Convention on

Conference_Location

Opatija

Print_ISBN

978-953-233-076-2

Type

conf

Filename

6596451