Just found this: http://gpgpu.org/2011/08/04/centileo-out-of-core-ray-tracer I wrote about this amazing out-of-core GPU path tracer (which will be presented at Siggraph this week) before (see http://raytracey.blogspot.com/2011/04/centileo-brand-new-interactive-out-of.html and http://raytracey.blogspot.com/2011/06/update-on-centileo-out-of-core-gpu-ray.html) .
There is also a dedicated website about CentiLeo at http://www.centileo.com. Some interesting quotes from the website:
"CPU-based rendering solutions (even many-core, e.g. 16-core) are much slower than our GPU-based software (around 25x slower). Such 16-core CPUs are 3-4x more expensive than our GPU."
"The target of CentiLeo development is to move all the flexible rendering related tools from slow and expensive CPU-based rendering solutions to new innovative GPU-based solutions.Release version should provide with the libraries and ray tracing acceleration tools which will allow:
- to setup own standalone graphics rendering applications;
- to integrate our accelerated individual rendering stages into existing rendering solutions and pipelines in various industries such as engineering design, architecture, movie industry, visualization and etc."
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