Deep Ray Parallel Raytracer

Bernhard Buehlmann

The Deep Ray parallel raytracer can be used from every Web browser. It enables the remote processing of BSDL scenes. A scene can be uploaded to a Supercomputer, which renders the image using a parallel raytracer based on the MPI message passing interface. The Deep Ray application  be found here.

The Deep Ray concept has been presented at the HPCN98 at Amstardam.

The abstract of the paper

The traditional complex access procedure still prevents a lot of scientists to migrate their applications to massively parallel computers and to benefit from their computing power. We present a new approach for obtaining a simpler user interface using standard components of today's Internet technologies. By means of a parallel raytracing application, called DeepRay, as an example we show how to implement a simple yet powerful interface to supercomputers.