A Pipeline-Based Ray-Tracing Runtime System for HSA-Compliant Frameworks.

Ray-tracing has received great attention over the years due to the high demand for global illumination appliances. Due to its embarrassingly parallel characteristics, the ray-tracing algorithm has been ported to the graphics processing unit (GPU) on heterogeneous systems that run thousands of threads in a single-instruction-multiple-thread fashion. However, the irregularity of ray-tracing causes a...