Hi Julien,

Thanks for the link. 

I will take a look, and if we will be able to implement the GPU support I 
will update the group

Ofer 

On Tuesday, June 16, 2015 at 3:55:35 PM UTC+3, Julien Michel wrote:
>
>  Hi Ofer,
>
> For now we do not have anything specific to GPU in Orfeo ToolBox. however, 
> you can use all ITK features from within OTB, and ITK has indeed made some 
> progress toward GPU support [1].
>
> If you have a look at this, please report to the mailing list, as this 
> topic can be of interest for others as well.
>
> Regards,
>
> Julien
>
> [1] http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK/Release_4/GPU_Acceleration
>
> Le 16/06/2015 14:49, Ofer Zilberstein a écrit :
>  
> Sound great 
>
>  Does OTB can take the advantage of GPU computing to get acceleration 
> (btw, I saw some presentation on ITK on CUDA) ?
>
>  BR
>
>  Ofer
>
>  I saw some communication about it 
>
> On Monday, June 1, 2015 at 1:32:17 PM UTC+3, Grizonnet Manuel wrote: 
>>
>>  Dear all,
>>
>> we are very pleased to announce that after months of hardwork Orfeo 
>> ToolBox 5.0, codename "Chalcidinae" is out! After Orfeo ToolBox 4.0 which 
>> brought the support of latest ITK, we feel this should be a new major 
>> release since it involves in-dept changes in the way Orfeo ToolBox is 
>> organized and builds. The focus for this release is therefore not on new 
>> functions, but changes are non-the-less important: easier build, better 
>> code organization, easier contributions...
>> Modularization: a big step forward 
>>
>> The 2988 source files composing Orfeo ToolBox are now organized into a 
>> set of 146 modules, folded into 16 groups, using ITK new code organization 
>> and CMake scripts. Modules are self-contained: headers, code, tests and 
>> applications are located in the module, it is therefore much easier to find 
>> your way in, since related files are now located close to each other. 
>> Modularization also brought a better documentation (our API documentation 
>> <https://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/doxygen-current/group__OTBTextures.html> 
>> is now organized by modules) and Testing (tests can be filtered by module 
>> on our Dashboard 
>> <http://dash.orfeo-toolbox.org/viewTest.php?onlypassed&buildid=184445>).
>>
>> CMake scripts ensure dependencies tracking between module : each module 
>> can be deactivated, which will in turn deactivate any dependant module. As 
>> third party software are also handled by dedicated modules, we were able to 
>> make almost all of them optional (and OFF by default): a minimal OTB can be 
>> built with only ITK and OSSIM.
>>
>> You can find more information on how to construct an OTB module here 
>> <https://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/introducing-orfeo-toolbox-new-modular-architecture/>
>> .
>> Third party policy reviewed 
>>
>> As part of this refactoring, we also reviewed our third party policy: by 
>> the past, code from third party software use to be included in Orfeo 
>> ToolBox source code for the sake of a simpler building procedure for users. 
>> However, since many dependencies are now completely optionnal (and since we 
>> now have a superbuild procedure, which I will describe later in this post), 
>> this is no longer needed. We therefore removed all third party code from 
>> OTB, with the notable exception of 6S, SiftFast (no package available on 
>> any system whatsoever) and ossimPlugins (a lot of code contributed by Orfeo 
>> ToolBox in this one). We also removed a lot of third party software which 
>> were not needed anymore (expat, edison, openthread...).
>> Superbuild comes to rescue you 
>>
>> If all third party software are removed from Orfeo ToolBox source code, 
>> it does not mean Orfeo ToolBox is more difficult to build: it is actually 
>> quite the opposite thanks to the Superbuild feature, a CMake project 
>> allowing to download, build and install all required dependencies with 
>> controlled version and configuration, and then build Orfeo ToolBox on top 
>> of it. With this way of building Orfeo ToolBox, a very small set of 
>> pre-installed software is actually required before you can build a fully 
>> fonctional and  complete Orfeo ToolBox, as explained in this blog post 
>> <http://jordiinglada.net/wp/2015/05/27/installing-otb-has-never-been-so-easy-8/>
>> .
>> A new way for code contribution 
>>
>> Modularization also brought a new way for code contribution : remote 
>> modules. You can actually write a module of your own, publish it on a git 
>> repository somewhere, and have it referenced through an option during Orfeo 
>> ToolBox cmake configuration. When turning this option ON, cmake will 
>> checkout the module code in Orfeo ToolBox source tree and build it as a 
>> regular module. And yes, it means we could provide dashboard testing and 
>> packaging for those external module as well. You can therefore contribute 
>> to Orfeo ToolBox without actually chaning a single line of code in Orfeo 
>> ToolBox. And you get to author, host and manage the source code of your 
>> contribution. A list of existing remote modules is maintained here 
>> <https://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/external-projects/>.
>> Bugs hunt 
>>
>> We actually fixed quite a lot of bugs during the last weeks of the 
>> release preparation, and 10 more were fixed between the release candidate 
>> and the final release. Check them out in the release notes 
>> <http://hg.orfeo-toolbox.org/OTB/file/255c8c7fb356/RELEASE_NOTES.txt>, 
>> some very annoying one now belong to the past!
>> Get OTB 5.0 and Monteverdi2 0.8.1 
>>
>> As usual, sources (OTB, Monteverdi2) and binary packages (Monteverdi2 for 
>> Mac OS X and Windows) can be downloaded on Sourceforge 
>> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/orfeo-toolbox/>. For Linux users, new 
>> version will be soon available for update through your favorite package 
>> manager software. We are maintaining now a list of OTB binary packages 
>> <http://wiki.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php/Binary_packages_status> 
>> available where you will find supported platforms and package versions.
>>
>> We welcome your feedback and request, and encourage you to join the OTB 
>> community and mailing list <http://groups.google.com/group/otb-users>.
>>
>>  Best regards,
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Manuel GRIZONNET
>>
>>
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