Intel® oneAPI Rendering Toolkit

Powerful Libraries for High-Fidelity Rendering and Visualization Applications

Photorealistic Rendering That Scales

The Intel® oneAPI Rendering Toolkit is designed to accelerate these types of workloads with a set of rendering and ray-tracing libraries to create high-performance, high-fidelity visual experiences. With the libraries, get the most from powerful Intel® hardware by optimizing CPU and future Xe or GPU rendering performance at any scale. Creators, scientists, and engineers can push the boundaries of visualization by using the toolkit to develop amazing studio animation and visual effects or to create scientific and industrial visualizations.

Applications include:

Digital content creation
Professional rendering
Animation
Computer-aided design, architectural engineering
Scientific visualization
Gaming VR and AR

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, which presents the annual Academy Awards*, awarded Intel® Embree Ray Tracing library, a component in the Intel® oneAPI Rendering Toolkit, a Scientific & Technical Achievement Award in 2021. The award recognized Intel® Embree for its geometric rendering in contributing innovation in significant and lasting ways to the movie-making process.

Award recipients: Sven Woop, Carsten Benthin, Attila Afra, Manfred Ernst, and Ingo Wald

Sr. Director of Intel Advanced Rendering & Visualization, Jim (James L.) Jeffers

The libraries and advanced components of the Intel oneAPI Rendering Toolkit are industry-trusted building blocks, which are integrated into many third-party professional content creation tools and applications for broader ecosystem use. These building blocks include, but are not limited to, V-Ray and Corona Renderer (Chaos Group), Paraview (Kitware), Cinema4D (Maxon), AutoCAD, 3DSMax, Revit (Autodesk) Dreamwork’s Moonray Renderer, Framestore Freak Renderer and EA Frostbite Game Engine.

Visual expression is an integral part of our digital world. More accurate, more realistic, and richer imagery that is better aligned with the human visual system has proven beneficial across a diverse set of uses and industries. For example, imagery in medical research, geophysical exploration, motion pictures, product design, and cosmology can be quickly rendered into rich, realistic visuals.

▶ Next Era of Graphics with High-Performance Ray Tracing & Rendering [16.22]

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Features

Software Visualization Tools
Take advantage of Intel®-optimized software, general purpose Intel® processors, and future Xe architecture devices to deliver high-fidelity, high-performance, and efficient visual applications with tools that provide:

  • Efficient deployment across parallel processing architectures and platforms
  • Access to all system memory space for even the largest data sets
  • Improved visual fidelity via ray tracing with global illumination
  • Cost-efficient, interactive performance for any data size
  • High-performance, deep learning-based denoising

 

Photo credit: Moana Island Scene rendered with Intel® OSPRay and Intel® Open Image Denoise. Publicly available dataset courtesy of Walt Disney Animation Studios.

Photo credit: Stellar Radiation image data courtesy of Lars Bildsten (and others), University of California, Santa Barbara and Joe Insley, Argonne National Laboratory.

What's Included

Intel® Embree

Improve the performance of photo-realistic rendering applications with this library of ray-tracing kernels. The kernels are optimized for the latest Intel® processors with support for Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions [4.2] through to the latest Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512.

Intel® Open Image Denoise

Improve image quality with machine learning algorithms that selectively filter visual noise. This independent component can be used for noise reduction on 3D rendered images, with or without Intel Embree.

Intel® OpenSWR

Use this OpenGL-compatible software rasterizer to work with datasets when GPU hardware isn’t available or is limiting. This CPU-based product runs on laptops, workstations, and compute nodes in high-performance computing (HPC) systems.

Note Intel® OpenSWR is available as part of the Mesa OpenGL open source community project at www.mesa3d.org.

Intel® Open Volume Kernel Library (Intel® Open VKL)

Enable rendering and simulation processing of 3D spatial data with low-level volumetric data-processing algorithms.

Intel® OSPRay

Use this ray-tracing API and engine to rapidly develop interactive, high-fidelity, visualization applications.

Intel® OSPRay Studio

Perform high-fidelity, ray traced, interactive, and real-time rendering through a graphical user interface with this new scene graph application addition to Intel OSPRay.

Intel® OSPRay for Hydra* 

Connect the Intel oneAPI Rendering Toolkit libraries in your application to the universal scene description (USD) Hydra rendering subsystem by using the Intel® OSPRay for Hydra* plug-in. This plug-in enables fast preview exploration for compositing and animation, as well as high-quality, physically based photorealistic rendering of USD content.

Rendering Toolkit Utilities

The included Render Kit Superbuild utility automatically downloads the Intel oneAPI Rendering Toolkit source code, TBB binaries, Intel® Implicit SPMD Program Compiler (Intel® ISPC) binaries, and build binaries for each component.

What Customers Are Saying

“An example of this adoption of technology from Intel was Tangent’s incorporation of Embree, Intel’s open-source ray-tracing core. This had a very dramatic, positive impact on production of Next Gen, resulting in performance figures such as a 10 to 15 overall decrease in render time, with greater decreases witnessed on scenes with heavy volumetrics and motion blur [and] 400 to 500 decrease on frames that exhibited extreme motion blur.”

 – Jeff Bell, president, Tangent Studios

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“We found Intel Embree ray-tracing kernels to be the best efficient alternative to our legacy code to improve the performance.  This drastically improved multithreaded and vectorization capabilities that reduced our rendering time helping Illumination Mac Guff and increased the quality and richness of our images.”

– Xavier Bec, head of research and development, Illumination Animation

“By working with Intel on the Intel oneAPI Rendering Toolkit, we’ve been able to leverage and take advantage of its open-source platform. This has meant we have been able to rapidly research and develop proof of concepts that focus on cost-efficient methods for the creation [of] rendered images and user experiences for the future.”

– Paul Chapman, virtual media manager, Bentley Motors Limited

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"V-Ray* is the industry’s gold standard for ray traced rendering and Intel has been there for us from the beginning with high-performance multicore processors and optimization software. We’re now delivering on-demand rendering with Chaos Cloud where Intel continues to provide the scalability that we count on."

— Phillip Miller, vice president of product management, Chaos Group

Case Study

"On the recently released Modo* 14.1, our customers are reporting amazing rendering performance with Intel Embree ray-tracing library and Intel® Open Image Denoise that previously would have only been available through high-end GPUs. This really packs a one-two punch to those costly render times on CPU hardware that all our users can appreciate."

– Shane Griffith, director of product-digital design, Foundry

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"KeyShot integrates Intel® Open Image Denoise for one-click, high-performance image denoising with results that are simply incredible. Through this technology, KeyShot's reputation for speed and quality is complemented with a level of noise reduction and feature preservation that aids the visualization process and accelerates the product delivery cycle.”

– Derek Cicero, Vice President of Products, Luxion (Makers of KeyShot)

"Visualization is the key to better simulations. So, by visualizing the data in real time, we get faster development timescales, as well as much better insight."

— Dr. Paul Shellard, professor of cosmology and director of the Stephen Hawking Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge

Case Study

"Atipa and Intel’s infrastructure make it possible to train the next generation of visualization experts with advanced tools and [the] software infrastructure they will encounter in most advanced industry settings."

— Michael E. Papka, professor of computer science, Northern Illinois University (NIU) 

Case Study

“TACC applauds the Intel Rendering Toolkit and our long standing collaboration to help us deliver Professional Visualization that enables the wide availability of high fidelity and interactive visualization for many more users."

— Dr. Paul Navratil, director of visualization, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)

Intel oneAPI Rendering Toolkit in Action

SuperMUC-NG Enables Innovative Science with Best Scientific Visualization

See how the SuperMUC-NG computer uses the Intel® oneAPI Rendering Toolkit to deliver groundbreaking visualization results.

Cinema 4D* Improves Computer Graphics Workflows with AI-Trained Denoising

Learn how Intel and Maxon are expanding what’s possible in the field of 3D art and animation by including Intel® Open Image Denoise libraries.

Advances in CGI & Ray Tracing Revolutionize Animating 3D Model Images

Chaos Group* uses the Intel® Visual Cloud Development Platform and Intel oneAPI Rendering Toolkit libraries to provide reliable, flexible rendering services. They have scaled small projects and produced large-scale visual effects for Avengers: Infinity War* and Game of Thrones*.

Corona Renderer Uses Intel Embree Ray Tracing Kernels

Corona calls them the fastest CPU ray tracing primitives on the market. Since they mesh well with the Corona architecture, the kernels are an important factor for its performance.

Special Hardware Not Needed

Explore how the Intel oneAPI Rendering Toolkit can deliver better performance at a higher degree of fidelity—without investing in extra hardware.

Advance Studio Workflows with the Intel oneAPI Rendering Toolkit & Xe architecture from Intel

Learn about Hydra OSPRay, an open source plug-in for Universal Scene Description, and Intel® Open Volume Kernel Library. Find out about three new world-class graphics and visualization institutes supported by Intel.

Specifications

Review each library open source website for complete build dependencies.

Processors:

  • Intel® Core™ processor
  • Intel Atom® processor
  • Intel® Xeon® processors

Note These processors must support Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.2 [4.1 for Intel Open Image Denoise].

Host & target operating systems:

  • Windows*
  • Linux*
  • macOS*

Compiler:

  • Intel® Implicit SPMD Program Compiler (Intel® ISPC)
    • Supports runtime code selection that provides the best path for end users' applications
    • Automatically vectorizes and leverages Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions, Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions, Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2, and Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 instructions

Binary runtime dependencies:

  • Intel Embree requires Intel® Threading Building Blocks
  • Intel OSPRay requires Intel Embree
  • Intel OSPRay 2.0 and later requires Intel Open Volume Kernel Library and Intel Open Image Denoise

Third-party software:

  • Microsoft Visual C++ (as MSVCP140.dll) is required for windows execution

Note This library would typically already be installed in your Windows environment.

For more information, see the system requirements.

Get a Single Component

Intel oneAPI Rendering Toolkit components are available as stand-alone packages.

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Your success is our success. Access these forum and GitHub* resources when you need assistance.

For additional help, see our general oneAPI Support.

 

Product and Performance Information

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Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Learn more at www.Intel.com/PerformanceIndex.

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