Thanks for picking this up. I'm in the process of integrating OpenCL with our qt/qml application. I will be happy to test, and contribute our work as applicable so as to encourage this development.
j On Mar 29, 2014, at 2:31 PM, Liang Qi <[email protected]> wrote: > Time is so fast. > > I got some free time this weekend, and did a bit work for building QtOpenCL > with Qt 5. My latest work in the dev branch of following repo: > https://github.com/liangqi/qtopencl > > If someone could setup a labs project, qtopencl, in codereview, maybe we > could continue work on this topic there. > > Regards, > Liang > > On 29 June 2013 19:00, Sebastian Lehmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Qt developers, > > I'm sadly noting that the QtOpenCL project [1] is dead since end 2010, > yet it's still > usable. I want to bring this module back to life. Currently, the > module has a couple of > issues such as const-correctness and missing support for Qt5. > > I see two options with that: Either rewriting the whole module with a > new design, or > improving the existing code base. > > Also, I'd love to have some basic, generic and reusable algorithms > implemented in OpenCL > and available with an interface similar to QtConcurrent. This could be > in a separate > module. I have some nice ideas for the design of this. > > Some people say that there's no big advantage in having a QtOpenCL > module, as everything > can also be done with CL library function calls. But both the > advantage of RAII as well > as having a Qt'ish interface are a huge help when writing applications > with a lot of > GPGPU computations, as the raw CL functions are way too painful to > write (and read). > > How's your opinion about bringing QtOpenCL back to life (especially in > Qt5)? Any concrete > ideas or suggestions? > > Anyone out there who wants to help? How is the typical "workflow" for > new modules in Qt5? > > Cheers, > > Leemes > > > PS: I already read through the Qt Contribution Guidelines. > > PPS: I'm currently writing an OpenCL powered application with the > "old" QtOpenCL module > within the context of a GPGPU computing course I'm taking. I have > quite a good knowledge > of GPGPU computing as well as the old QtOpenCL module and its flaws. > But I think this > won't be enough to rewrite a whole new Qt5 module from scratch. So I > think this won't > work unless some people from the community can be found willing to help. > > > [1]: http://doc.qt.digia.com/opencl-snapshot/ > > -- > http://www.qiliang.net > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
_______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
