Siebel Center Imagery Featured on Proceedings Cover: HPG 2009

October 13, 2009
By: Cheri Helregel

An image featured in research presented by UPCRC Illinois was chosen for the HPG 2009 proceedings cover. Co-located with SIGGRAPH 2009, the Conference on High-Performance Graphics (HPG 2009) was held in New Orleans Agusut 1-3, 2009. The image is of a Siebel Center staircase — which was shaded 3.5 times faster using a SIMD sorter developed at Illinois. The Thomas M. Siebel Center is home to the Universal Parallel Computing Research Center and the department of computer science at the University of Illinois. John C. Hart presented the paper, Stream Compaction for Deferred Shading, during a session on GPU computing. Jared Hoberock, Victor Lu, and Yuntao Jia contributed to this research. An inagural event, the Conference on High Performance Graphics merged previous conferences on graphics hardware and real-time ray tracing.

About UPCRC Illinois
The Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC Illinois) at the University of Illinois is a joint research endeavor of the Department of Computer Science, the Coordinated Science Laboratory, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and corporate partners Microsoft and Intel. The center builds on a history of Illinois innovation in parallel computing that spans four decades. UPCRC Illinois is also one of many Parallel@Illinois efforts currently invested in pioneering and promoting parallel computing research and education.