Ray Tracing Coming to DirectX!

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/261336950/article.pl

I believe this to be awesome news.  While Intel, John Carmack, NVidia, and others debate the degree to which Ray Tracing is useful, I'll be hoping that the Direct X Ray Tracing solution using the Task Paralell Library (or something like it) to exploit multiple cores for ray tracing a scene.