Tachyon Parallel ray tracing library for use on distributed memory parallel computers, shared memory computers and clusters
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Parallel ray tracing library for use on distributed memory parallel computers, shared memory computers and clusters Tachyon is a parallel ray tracing library for use on shared memory computers, distributed memory parallel computers, and clusters of workstations. Tachyon supports MPI for distributed memory parallel computers, threads for shared memory machines, and can support both simultaneously for clusters of shared memory machines. Tachyon has been selected for inclusion in the SPEC MPI2007 benchmark suite. Tachyon supports the typical ray tracer features, most of the common geometric primitives, shading and texturing modes, etc. Tachyon also supports less common features such as HDR image output, ambient occlusion lighting, and support for various triangle mesh and volumetric texture formats beneficial for molecular visualization (e.g. rendering VMD scenes). What's New in This Release: · Updated vertex array primitives to allow the use of volumetric texturing in place of vertex colored smooth triangles, when the color block is not defined. This is · used by VMD for rendering of electrostatic potential maps.

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