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Ray Processing Unit

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The Ray Processing Unit (RPU) is experimental ray tracing hardware device, developed at the Saarland University. It will be 50-100 times faster than the most advanced graphics processing unit.

Unlike the previous SaarCOR architecture, which could do only predefined operations, RPU is programmable.


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