On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 8:47 AM, Francesco Faccenda <f.faccend...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> But there’s a good news, I have a nice GPU available (an NVIDIA Tesla
> K40c), so I’d like to know if there is a way to make matplotlib run on it,
> or maybe wrap it on some GPU/CUDA wrapper and make it run smoothly.
>
I tihnk you want VisPy:
https://vispy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
It's a plotting package with a kinda like matplotlib API, built on OpenGL.
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it's been updated in a while -- from
teh docs. But the gitHub project is active:
https://github.com/vispy/vispy
So maybe it's only the docs that haven't been updated!
But probably a much better option than trying to shoehorn GPU rendering
into MPL.
The problem is that while MPL was designed to be "backend" independent --
so it is "easy" to plug in an alternative renderer, the rendering model is
not really well suited to GPU rendering -- it would take a lot of
refactoring to really be able to take advantage of the graphics card.
-CHB
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