We have matrices of size 2000 x 2000. Soon we would like to work with matrices 2000 x 2000 x 10 000. Your work on OpenCL is __highly__ important to us
Alexandre On May 8, 2014, at 4:02 PM, Ronie Salgado <[email protected]> wrote: > Alex, > > What is the size of those matrices? > > > 2014-05-08 15:56 GMT-04:00 Alexandre Bergel <[email protected]>: > My first thought would be to have some particular C routines to perform a > transformation on a matrix. > This would not be that difficult I guess. Well.. We have to see. We will > likely enter the optimization phase in a couple of months from now. > > Alexandre > > > On May 8, 2014, at 2:15 PM, Chris Cunningham <[email protected]> wrote: > > > So, Hannes may have been referring to optimizing the slow parts of the > > process in Native Boost directly instead of using an external library (if > > not, may I suggest it?). It is possible that just a few tweaks using > > Assembler in the process would get the speed up to an acceptable level, > > which would be determined by profiling the performance. Of course, that > > path requires someone on your project that can understand Assembler to get > > familiar with NativeBoost. > > -cbc > > > > On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Alexandre Bergel <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > We will surely review all the different options for interacting with > > external libraries. Ronie is our local expert :-) > > > > Currently, we have no preview of the Roassal book to share. Give us a > > couple of months :-) > > > > Cheers, > > Alexandre > > > > > > On May 8, 2014, at 9:23 AM, H. Hirzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Interesting project, Alexandre! > > > > > > On 5/6/14, Alexandre Bergel <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Thanks Kilon for your nice words. > > >> Currently, AstroCloud is a bit slow. For example, loading this image > > >> takes > > >> much more than it should. For now, speed is not our priority. AstroCloud > > >> has > > >> to be fast and we will make it fast. Probably relying on external > > >> library is > > >> the way to go. > > > > > > I assume you consider or have considered NativeBoost as well? > > > > > >> > > >> Just to give a bit more context about why we are doing AstroCloud. ALMA > > >> is > > >> the largest observatory on Earth, making it the largest astronomical > > >> project > > >> in existence (http://www.almaobservatory.org). This is what humanity has > > >> best to detect life outside Earth. > > >> ALMA is made of 66 high-precision antenas making it possible to see deep > > >> in > > >> the universe. Unfortunately, there is no good software to process these > > >> immensely complex pictures. Some tool suite naturally exist, but they > > >> were > > >> not made for ALMA, making these existing tools largely suboptimal to > > >> process > > >> complex picture of ALMA. > > >> Faviola’s dream (and mine) is to produce a tool ready to be consumed by > > >> astronomers to process ALMA pictures. Faviola and I are currently seeking > > >> for additional resources on making this happen. > > > > > > > > >> Regarding your help about documenting Roassal. It is very welcome! In > > >> one of > > >> my previous post, I said that 2014 will be the year of documenting > > >> Roassal. > > >> A book is on its way. > > > > > > > > >> We will need people to review it. So thanks! > > > > > > Preview of part of it on line? > > > > > > > > > Regards > > > Hannes > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Moose-dev mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev > > > > -- > > _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: > > Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu > > ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: > Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu > ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. > > > > > -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.
