Mark Harris (programmer)

Mark J. Harris, a real-time computer graphics researcher for Nvidia, received a Ph.D. in 2003 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His dissertation and the first of his several papers on computer graphics, "Real-Time Cloud Rendering and Simulation", proposed a real-time algorithm approximating Rayleigh scattering to realistically render clouds using 2-dimensional transparent billboards.^[1]

Harris coined the term GPGPU, which stands for "General-Purpose computation on Graphics Processing Units". He founded the website GPGPU.org^[2] in 2002, and he continues to maintain the site as of February 2010.

Since being hired by Nvidia, Harris has published several works in the field of real-time rendering and parallel algorithms, including an article for GPU Gems 2 on GPU-based fluid simulation.^[3][4]

References

1. ^ Real-Time Cloud Simulation and Rendering A Ph.D. dissertation by Mark J. Harris
2. ^ General-Purpose computation on Graphics Processing Units - GPGPU.org
3. ^ GPU Gems 2: Programming Techniques for High-Performance Graphics - Nvidia Developer Zone
4. ^ Mark Harris' homepage

External links

• Mark Harris' homepage.
• GPGPU.org

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