Ray tracing efficiently models complex illumination effects to improve visual realism in computer graphics. Typical modern GPUs use wide SIMD processing, and have achieved impressive performance for a ...

The reconfiguration enables the core to operate as a SIMD processor (with N processing elements), as a MIMD/multiprocessor processor (with N/4 processing elements), or as a mixed-mode processor ...

In a context of high performance, low cost and rapid prototyping, a hybrid SIMD/MIMD architecture for image processing is proposed in this work. By reusing functional units and including a dynamically ...