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Running Tachyon

Since Tachyon runs on a wide variety of platforms, the exact commands required to run it vary substantially. The easiest way to get started using Tachyon is to begin by running one of the sequential or multi-threaded versions. Tachyon includes a built-in help page describing all available command line options with brief text descriptions, this help page is displayed when Tachyon is run with the -help option. Below we describe the Tachyon command line parameters in more detail.

Subsections

- General command line options
- Command line shading controls
- Command line image format options
- Interactive ray tracing
- Performance tuning options
- Tips for running MPI versions