SaarCOR
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SaarCOR is an early experimental ray tracing hardware
, developed at the Saarland University
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As SaarCOR is not programmable, it accelerates only a small (but most computationally intensive) part of the ray tracing process that deals with finding intersections.
The successor of SaarCOR is RPU
.
Ray tracing hardware
Ray tracing hardware is special purpose computer hardware designed for accelerating ray tracing calculations.-Introduction: Ray tracing and rasterization:...
, developed at the Saarland University
Saarland University
Saarland University is a university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland, and Homburg. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in 8 faculties that cover all major fields of science...
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As SaarCOR is not programmable, it accelerates only a small (but most computationally intensive) part of the ray tracing process that deals with finding intersections.
The successor of SaarCOR is RPU
Ray Processing Unit
The Ray Processing Unit is experimental ray tracing hardware device, developed at the Saarland University. It will be 50-100 times faster than the most advanced graphics processing unit....
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