Question
Albrecht Dürer is often credited with the invention of this technique in the 16th century. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this technique that Arthur Appel first accomplished in 1968. Equations like the Blinn-Phong model are used to calculate “bounces” caused from surfaces in this technique.
ANSWER: ray tracing
[10e] In 2018, Nvidia released the GeForce RTX series, the first of these computer components to supported realtime hardware ray tracing. These computer components are traditionally used to render images.
ANSWER: GPU [or graphics processing unit; prompt on graphics card]
[10m] The CUDA API used in Nvidia GPUs utilizes this paradigm to execute multiple kernels. Hyper-threading in Intel computer processors supports this technique to improve the efficiency of computers.
ANSWER: parallel computing
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Summary
| 2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| 2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 8 | 11.25 | 88% | 25% | 0% |
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| Rochester A | Cornell Wind | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cornell Earth | RIT | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell Fire | Rochester B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia Ly-α | Rochester C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |