A Corps of Cores, of Course!

Thursday, 25 July 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
Session Chair: Abe Wiley, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

Embree Ray Tracing Kernels for CPUs and the Xeon Phi Architecture

Embree is an open-source ray tracing library developed to show performance-focused graphics programmers how to take full advantage of multiple cores and wide SIMD units in the context of ray tracing.

Sven Woop
Intel Labs

Louis Feng
Intel Corporation

Ingo Wald
Intel Labs

Carsten Benthin
Intel Labs

Parallel JavaScript: Bringing the Compute Power of Multi-Core CPUs and GPUs to the World of Web Graphics

This talk presents Parallel JavaScript, a safe, productive, portable parallel programming model and API for the web that for the first time enables advanced computer vision and graphics applications running in a browser to fully leverage hardware parallelism from multiple-cores, vector instructions, and GPUs.

Stephan Herhut
Intel Labs

Richard Hudson
Intel Labs

Jaswanth Sreeram
Intel Labs

Tatiana Shpeisman
Intel Labs