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The group has decided to proceed with the "Creating ray-traced images" application as it has good potential for parallelization. Although the total time taken to generate one image is somewhat fast already (3.6 seconds), however, if generating multiple images (10, 100, or even more), then parallelization would offer great savings in the total time.
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After reaching the above decision, the team started looking into the effort required to parallelize the program. The '''TraceRay()''' method called in the nested loop is a member of the '''Scene''' class which has several lists of objects that are created on the heap. It is a major effort to copy these to the device as there are many dependent classes. In addition, the program uses the standard template library which would have to be converted to be using the '''Thrust''' library. Given the large number of classes involved, the effort required to do these is big and error-prone. As a result, the team has now decided to work on the '''Image Processing''' program.
== Assignment 2 ==
== Assignment 3 ==
