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Multithreading for Visual Effects by Martin Watt, James Reinders, George ElKoura, Jeff Lait, Ronald Henderson, Erwin Coumans, Manuel Kraemer (Hardcover, 2014)

Tackle the Challenges of Parallel Programming in the Visual Effects Industry In Multithreading for Visual Effects, developers from DreamWorks Animation, Pixar, Side Effects, Intel, and AMD share their successes and failures in the messy real-world application area of production software. They provide practical advice on multithreading techniques and visual effects used in popular visual effects libraries (such as Bullet, OpenVDB, and OpenSubdiv), one of the industry's leading visual effects packages (Houdini), and proprietary animation systems. This information is valuable not just to those in the visual effects arena, but also to developers of high performance software looking to increase performance of their code. Diverse Solutions to Solve Performance Problems After an introductory chapter, each subsequent chapter presents a case study that illustrates how the authors used multithreading techniques to achieve better performance. The authors discuss the problems that occurred and explain how they solved them. The case studies encompass solutions for shaving milliseconds, solutions for optimizing longer running tasks, multithreading techniques for modern CPU architectures, and massive parallelism using GPUs. Some of the case studies include open source projects so you can try out these techniques for yourself and see how well they work.

Author
Martin Watt, James Reinders, George ElKoura, Jeff Lait, Ronald Henderson, Erwin Coumans, Manuel Kraemer
Publication Name
Multithreading for Visual Effects
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Animation
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
255 Pages

Title_Author
George ElKoura, Jeff Lait, Erwin Coumans, Manuel Kraemer, Ronald Henderson, James Reinders, Martin Watt
Country/Region of Manufacture
Canada

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