News, Updates, and Announcements
Feb 5, 2019: Version v1.8.0 now released on GitHub
New release version 1.8.0 is now available on the OSPRay GitHub page.
Dec 5, 2018: Version v1.7.3 now released on GitHub
New release version 1.7.3 is now available on the OSPRay GitHub page.
Nov 9, 2018: Version v1.7.2 now released on GitHub
New release version 1.7.2 is now available on the OSPRay GitHub page.
Oct 25, 2018: Version v1.7.1 now released on GitHub
New release version 1.7.1 is now available on the OSPRay GitHub page.
Sept 13, 2018: Version v1.7.0 now released on GitHub
New release version 1.7.0 is now available on the OSPRay GitHub page.
Jun 8, 2018: Version v1.6.1 now released on GitHub
New release version 1.6.1 is now available on the OSPRay GitHub page.
May 14, 2018: Version v1.6.0 now released on GitHub
New release version 1.6.0 is now available on the OSPRay GitHub page.
Mar 7, 2018: Version v1.5.0 now released on GitHub
New release version 1.5.0 is now available on the OSPRay GitHub page.
Jan 10, 2018: Version v1.4.3 now released on GitHub
New release version 1.4.3 is now available on the OSPRay GitHub page.
Nov 28, 2017: Version v1.4.2 now released on GitHub
New release version 1.4.2 is now available on the OSPRay GitHub page.
Nov 10, 2017: Version v1.4.1 now released on GitHub
New release version 1.4.1 is now available on the OSPRay GitHub page.
Sept 29, 2017: Version v1.4.0 now released on GitHub
New release version 1.4.0 is now available on the OSPRay GitHub page.
July 7, 2017: Version v1.3.1 now released on GitHub
New release version 1.3.1 is now available on the OSPRay GitHub page.
June 2, 2017: Version v1.3.0 now released on GitHub
New release version 1.3.0 is now available on the OSPRay GitHub page.
Mar 27, 2017: VisIt & OSPRay/SWR
Pre-built binaries for VisIt to run with OSPRay or SWR are available, see here for instructions.
Mar 13, 2017: Version v1.2.1 now released on GitHub
New release version 1.2.1 is now available on the OSPRay GitHub page.
Feb 9, 2017: Version v1.2.0 now released on GitHub
New release version 1.2.0 is now available on the OSPRay GitHub page.
Nov 30, 2016: Version v1.1.2 now released on GitHub
New release version 1.1.2 is now available on the OSPRay GitHub page.
Oct 2016: OSPRay at IEEE Vis
The paper “OSPRay – A CPU Ray Tracing Framework for Scientific Visualization” (49MB, smaller version 1.8MB) has been accepted at IEEE Vis. Available as well are the slides of the talk by Ingo Wald. Additionally, Jim Jeffers gave a talk as well.
Oct 24, 2016: Version v1.1.1 now released on GitHub
New release version 1.1.1 is now available on the OSPRay GitHub page.
Oct 4, 2016: Version v1.1.0 now released on GitHub
New release version 1.1.0 is now available on the OSPRay GitHub page.
July 20, 2016: Version v1.0.0 now released on GitHub
New release version 1.0.0 is now available on the OSPRay GitHub page.
June 3, 2016: Version v0.10.1 now released on GitHub
New release version 0.10.1 is now available on the OSPRay GitHub page.
May 13, 2016: Version v0.10.0 now released on GitHub
New release version 0.10.0 is now available on the OSPRay GitHub page.
Feb 29, 2016: Version v0.9.1 now released on GitHub
New release version 0.9.1 is now available on the OSPRay GitHub page.
Dec 18, 2015: Version v0.9.0 now released on GitHub
New release version 0.9.0 is now available on the OSPRay GitHub page.
Dec 7, 2015: Version v0.8.3 now released on GitHub
New release version 0.8.3 is now available on the OSPRay GitHub page.
Nov, 2015: Visualization of the 10TB Walls Data Set
SGI featured the visualization of the 10TB walls
data set at SC15 in Austin, Texas. More details in SGI’s blog. Additional images and a movie are available in the gallery.
July 22, 2015: Version v0.8.2 now released on GitHub
New release version 0.8.2 is now available on the OSPRay GitHub page.
July 13, 2015: OSPRay demo on KNL and Omni-Path at ISC15
The first public demonstration of OSPRay on Intel® Xeon Phi™ processor (Knights Landing) processors and Intel® Omni-Path Fabric is being shown at ISC15 in Frankfurt. The demo with the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology (CTC) is a visualization of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data captured by the Planck Satellite. More details here.
May 11, 2015: OSPRay mailing list
We have created a new mailing list for OSPRay release announcements and major news. Subscribe here.
May 8, 2015: Version v0.8.1 now released on GitHub
New release version 0.8.1 is now available on the OSPRay GitHub page.
Apr 22, 2015: Version v0.8.0 now released on GitHub
New release version 0.8.0 is now available on the OSPRay GitHub page.
Apr 2015: “First Light” for OSPRay-enabled BALLView
Andreas Hildebrandt, head of the Software Engineering and Bioinformatics group at the University of Mainz is currently creating an OSPRay rendering module for their BALLView package, a standalone molecular modeling and visualization application for the “BALL” Biochemical Algorithm Library.
Apr 2015: OSPRay related paper accepted at EGPGV
A paper on extending OSPRay to allow ray tracing of unstructured polyhedral grids has been accepted at the EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV).
Apr 2015: “First Light” of upcoming MPI and Display Wall Support
We now have “first light” for some upcoming OSPRay MPI-Parallel Rendering and Display Wall features planned for OSPRay 0.9. The attached image shows OSPRay parallel rendering on TACCs 320 MPixel “Stallion” Display wall. Read more.
Apr 6, 2015: Public Talk on OSPRay, Embree, and SWR at Sandia
Mar 12, 2015: Version v0.7.2 now Released on GitHub
New release version 0.7.2 is now available on the OSPRay GitHub page.
Dec 12, 2014: OSPRay “Alpha” Release Now Available
Following our announcement at Supercomputing 2014, an early “alpha” version of OSPRay is now available on GitHub. The main purpose of this “alpha” release is to give interested parties an early indication of the capabilities, features, and performance they can expect from the eventual 1.0 version (which we anticipate releasing in 2015), as well as to give early adopters “something” to experiment with that is unencumbered by NDAs.
Being an “alpha”-level release a certain amount of bugs, as-yet-missing features, or any other issues in the current version cannot be ruled out; however, we are committed to eradicating all such issues as soon as possible, and will constantly be posting bugfix-releases for fixed issues. Should you find any such issues please report them immediately via OSPRay’s GitHub Issue Tracker (or send us a pull request); for missing features please contact us via email at ospray@googlegroups.com.
Nov 25, 2014: SC14 slides now available
The slides for our OSPRay-related talks at SC14 are now available
- Christiaan Gribble’s “High-Performance Radio Frequency Ray Tracing with Embree (and OSPRay)”.
- “OSPRay - A Ray Tracing based Rendering Engine for High-Fidelity Visualization” (presented at the Intel® HPC Developers Conference at SC14).
- “High-Fidelity Visualization” (presented at UltraVis 2014)