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GPGPU
Today, the use of GPGPU is prevalent on most modern architectures. With the
parallel nature of the GPU, any algorithm that can process data in parallel can
generally run orders of magnitudes faster than their CPU counterparts. Therefore
it makes sense to take advantage of this power, considering that suitable hard-
ware can now be found on most common hardware configurations. This section
will covers articles that present techniques that go beyond the normal pixel and
triangle scope of GPUs and take advantage of the parallelism of modern graphic
processors to accomplish such tasks.
The first article, “Bit-Trail Traversal for Stackless LBVH on