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Real-Time RayTracer running on Intel Core i7

June 04, 2009

Ray tracer running on an Intel Core i7 920 @2.67 MHz with Windows Vista Ultimate 64. The ray tracer uses the pthreads library for parallelization.

The peak performance of 22 frames per second (FPS) is achieved with 60 threads.

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Software Engineering #parallelism #concurrency #graphics #c++

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