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In this paper we describe the parallel implementation of the Vertex-To-Vertex Radiosity method on a cluster of PC hosts with a Distributed Shared Memory interface (DSM). We first explain how we use stochastic rays to compute the Form-Factor. We then proceed to describe the implementation of this method on top of the millipede system, a virtual parallel machine that runs on top of available distributed environments. We discuss a step-by-step process for exploiting millipede's optimization mechanisms. Despite the relatively slow communication medium, the optimization process leads from initial slowdown to high speedups.
Preliminary results of this work were presented at the Workshop on Algorithm Engineering, Venice, September 1997.
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Bar-Lev, A., Itzkovitz, A., Raviv, A., Schuster, A. (1998). Parallel vertex-to-vertex radiosity on a distributed shared memory system. In: Ferreira, A., Rolim, J., Simon, H., Teng, SH. (eds) Solving Irregularly Structured Problems in Parallel. IRREGULAR 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1457. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0018543
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