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Apparatus and method for piece-wise compositing. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a plurality of nodes to operate in parallel to render an image associated with a data set; and an interconnect to couple the plurality of nodes; a first node of the plurality of nodes to: independently march a first one or more rays through local data comprising a first portion of the data set to determine first local moments; sum the first local moments to generate a first partial moment; combine the first partial moment with one or more additional partial moments received from other nodes of the plurality of nodes to generate a global moment; re-march the first one or more rays or re-blend captured samples using the global moment to render the first portion of the image; and combine the first portion of the image with other portions of the image received from other nodes of the plurality of nodes to produce a final rendered image corresponding to the data set.
