Parallel Rendering and the Quest for Realism: The `Kilauea' Massively Parallel Ray Tracer Toshiaki Kato, Hitoshi Nishimura, Tadashi Endo, Tamotsu Maruyama, Jun Saito, and Per H. Christensen Abstract: By taking advantage of the increased performance and decreased cost of personal computers today, and by making use of the massive computational resources gained from parallelizing such machines, we ca