On Mar 13, 2014, at 6:20 AM, Tose Nikolov <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am Todor Nikolov, currently I am in my 3-rd year of undergraduate studies > in Computer Science and Engineering at the Faculty of Computer Science and > engineering, in Skopje, Macedonia. I am familiar with c/c++ and the focus of > my studies is parallel programming. My irc alias is todor_nikolov or > t_nikolov. Welcome! > I am interested in speeding up your raytracer and porting parts of it to > openCL. While I haven't worked with openCL yet, I am familiar with CUDA and > moving from one to the other should be easy. Glad to hear it — that’s a particularly high-impact and high-visibility project if you get it working well enough. Do note that we have an “opencl” branch in SVN with one primitive is already converted and working properly (so there’s an example to follow). There’s just 20 or so others to go. ;) > Another idea I had was creating a library meant for measuring of performance > during runtime, meaning take measurements of time, input, memory usage, etc. Great idea. We already do this. ;) In fact, the “BRL-CAD Benchmark Suite” is built around that very infrastructure. > I will be working on my proposal during the weekend and the first draft > should be available very soon. Look forward to seeing it. Cheers! Sean ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
