Reconfigurable implementation of radiosity distribution computation

Abstract

Reconfigurable Computing (RC) is a technology that attempts to increase computational power by customizing the computational platform to the specific problem at hand. This approach is favorable for handling problems like radiosity distribution computation, which consist of a fine granularity of parallel floating point multiplications. We have performed a feasibility study on using reconfigurable hardware for interactive radiosity distribution computation. We have introduced and applied techniques to convert the conventional algorithms on Radiosity Redistribution into parallel execution structures, especially in reusing patches information. Parallel Progressive Radiosity Implementation (PPR), a new system architecture with swappable area is proposed to handle Form Factor Determination and Radiosity Redistribution dynamically in RC platforms, which reduces the unresolved conflicts between the resources starvation.