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Multithreaded Performance: UCLA CS35L Assignment 8

Improve "srt" - a ray tracing program in C - to support multithreading, and thus improve its performance on multicore processors.

How to run the program

• cd into the program directory; then make to generate the executable file.
• ./srt -N to run, where -N is the number of threads using.
• make clean check outputs four ray tracing images calculated by 1, 2, 4 and 8 threads.

References

• Assignment website: http://web.cs.ucla.edu/classes/winter16/cs35L/assign/assign8.html
• The original ray tracing program is credited to Brian Allen's SRT implementation. See assignment website for details.

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Yingbo (Max) Wang

University of California, Los Angeles