Hi Tim, Thanks for reaching out to the list.
Improvements in ITK's support for parallel processing and architectures would be greatly welcome. We currently have some support for OpenCL-based computing. However, if appropriate, addition of SYCL or better C++ programming capabilities would be welcome. Also, a port of the VTK SMPTools (see 'git grep SMPTools' within the VTK tree) would be a good way to allow better parallel computing in ITK. If you want to do a comparison for your thesis, there are a few backends there that could be compared to the ones you propose. Since ITK and VTK have a common ancestry in the multi-threading code, a similar update could be possible in the codebase. For benchmarks, I am hoping to try Air Speed Velocity [1] to track performance. We started a repository to add performance benchmarks [2] with real-world use cases, but it has yet to be populated. A good start for performance benchmarks may be some of the slower tests that currently exist in the test suite [3]. Thanks, Matt [1] https://spacetelescope.github.io/asv/index.html [2] https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITKPerformanceTests [3] http://kitware.com/blog/posts/view/556 On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 7:59 AM, Tim Beattie <s1471...@sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi folks. > > Are there any readily-available benchmarks for the ITK project? I’m > interested in porting some of the parallelised parts of ITK to SYCL in order > to see how SYCL performs when compared to other parallel programming > frameworks. I’ve had a brief look at the ITK code and some of the mailing > list archives, but I haven’t found anything called a benchmark or which > mentions performance. I know there are extensive unit tests and plenty of > examples, but what I’m really looking for is a “this is how we all benchmark > it” program. > > Just in case anyone’s interested, this is for a masters dissertation in High > Performance Computing at the University of Edinburgh. I’ll be running > several medical imaging and robotic vision benchmarks on Xeon Phi hardware > and possibly on AMD GPUs as well. > > Thanks in advance, > > Tim > > > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Kitware offers ITK Training Courses, for more information visit: > http://kitware.com/products/protraining.php > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ITK FAQ at: > http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_FAQ > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/insight-developers > _______________________________________________ > Community mailing list > commun...@itk.org > http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Kitware offers ITK Training Courses, for more information visit: http://kitware.com/products/protraining.php Please keep messages on-topic and check the ITK FAQ at: http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/insight-developers
