RPU: a programmable ray processing unit for realtime ray tracing

By Sven Woop, Jörg Schmittler, Philipp Slusallek. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2005

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Ray Tracing on the Cell Processor (2006, methodology): “Instead of a unified memory cache, we follow the approach recently used for designing ray tracing hardware [23, 32], and use specialized caches for each kind of scene data.”
OptiX: a general purpose ray tracing engine (2010, background): “The RPU [Woop et al. 2005] is a special purpose hardware system for interactive ray tracing that provides some degree of programmability for using geometry, vertex and lighting shaders written in assembly language.”
Dynamic Warp Formation and Scheduling for Efficient GPU Control Flow (2007, methodology): “This causes a hazard in the SIMD pipeline [22, 37] known as branch divergence [19, 30].”
Interactive k-d tree GPU raytracing (2007, methodology): “As a result, researchers have explored many novel custom and emerging architectures in pursuit of interactivity [Purcell et al. 2002; Woop et al. 2005; Benthin et al. 2006].”
Ray tracing deformable scenes using dynamic bounding volume hierarchies (2007, background): “Interactive ray tracing has also been demonstrated on a variety of platforms including supercomputers [Parker 2002], FPGAs [Schmittler et al. 2002; Woop et al. 2005], GPUs [Purcell et al.”