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has the right to do so. Note that the definitive versions of all EG papers (Eurographics,...) can be downloaded from http://www.eg.org/EG/DL. ACM papers (Siggraph, ...) can be downloaded from http://www.acm.org/dl/. Parallel Wavelet Radiosity Xavier Cavin, Laurent Alonso and Jean-Claude Paul Proceedings of the Second Eurographics Workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualisation , Rennes, France, 1998 Abstract: This paper presents parallel versions of a wavelet radiosity algorithm. Wavelet radiosity is based on a general framework of projection methods and wavelet theory. The resulting algorithm has a cost proportional to O(n) versus the O(n^2) complexity of the classical radiosity algorithms. However, designing a parallel wavelet radiosity is challenging because of its irregular and dynamic nature. Since explicit message passing approaches fail to deal with such applications, we have experimented various parallel implementations on a hardware ccNUMA architecture, the SGI Origin2000. Our experiments show that load balancing is a crucial performance issue to handle the dynamic distribution of work and communication, while we do make all reasonable efforts to exploit data locality efficiently. Our best results yield a speed-up of 24 with 36 processors, even when dealing with extremely complex models. BibTex reference @INPROCEEDINGS{cavin:PWR:1998,
AUTHOR = "Cavin, Xavier and Alonso, Laurent and Paul, Jean-Claude",
TITLE = "Parallel Wavelet Radiosity",
BOOKTITLE = "Proceedings of the Second Eurographics Workshop on Parallel Graphics
and Visualisation , Rennes, France",
YEAR = "1998",
EDITOR = "Kadi Bouatouch, Alan Chalmers, Thierry Priol",
PAGES = "61-75",
MONTH = "sep",
}
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