Hello Kurt, Le 18 mai 2011 à 02:58, Kurt Landrus a écrit :
> Hello, > I would like to introduce myself and join and help out the Etoile > project. > My name is Kurt Landrus, but I like to go by Koctya nickname (c is pronounce > like s). > I've been lurking here for a while, and would like to learn more about > Objective-C and improve my skills. Great! New contributors are always welcome :) > I work in Reston Va. in IC, using Ruby, Scala, Java. > I am ABD and working toward finishing my dissertation in computer > engineering, and I hope to finish in summer or fall 2011. > My topic is on GPU computing for Finite Difference problems with OpenCL, and > work mostly in C and Fortran (in addition to OpencL and CUDA). Sounds cool :-) > Would there be any use for an CLKit in Etoile to accelerate any functions? I don't think so, we haven't many performance issues. David who is working on LLVM/Clang optimizations to make "ObjC as fast as C" might phrase it in another way though ;-) Well, what I would interested in is a CoreImage framework implementation. So in this perspective a CLKit may be useful. I don't know much about the implementation details, but I read somewhere that since Mac OS X 10.6 CoreImage filters are now implemented in OpenCL rather than OpenGL shaders language. However the documentation still suggests to use the later to write new filters. > Can you suggest any components that I can help work on to better improve my > Objective-C? You can contribute to GNUstep… For example, the new NSURL-related API added with 10.6 are pretty useful and not available on GNUstep. NSString and Foundation collection API lack some 10.5 or 10.6 methods too iirc. Otherwise making progresses on SystemConfig would be nice, take a look here: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/etoile/trunk/Etoile/Frameworks/SystemConfig/ There is now DBusKit which can be used in SystemConfig to access DBus interfaces. > I use mostly a MacBook Pro, and a Mini server, in additon to a home built > Linux workstation with NVIDIA GTX-275, and AMD Radeon HD 6950 GPUs. > I like working with FreeBSD, but I use Ubuntu minimal server as I need the > closed drivers to work with CUDA and OpenCL. > I tried Installing Etoile at work, but it failed to build ( I don't have > notes at home), I plan to try again at home next weekend. Let us know about your building issues if they persist. > Also I read some of David's Articles on Text proc. and was wondering if any > of his Latex Macros are available anywhere, They would be very helpful to use > in writing my paper. No idea… Cheers, Quentin. _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list Etoile-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
