Hi All, I have a little Atom based Net Top I use as a set top box on my HD TV. It has an ION chipset which means it can use Hardware accelerated video decoding via VDPAU. Its amazing what a difference it makes, decoding 1080p Blurays would be impossible on its low power Atom CPU alone. It got me thinking about how Schrodinger could benefit form the same computational horse power. Since Nvidia & AMD are not likely (any time soon) to add support for Dirac directly, I was wondering what everyone thought about Schrodinger using OpenCL to speed up encoding and decoding.
I know there's a branch of Schrodinger that uses CUDA the Nvidia propriety competitor to OpenCL to speed up decoding. Did this have a very big effect on the performance ? I intend to try it out myself soon. Presumably encoding would also benefit from similar techniques. CUDA and OpenCL are very similar. On Nvidia machines it appears the OpenCL is compiled then executed by the same engine that executes the CUDA code. Of course OpenCL being an Open Standard is supported on other hardware such AMD hardware as well. Just wondered what everyone thinks about it. Charlie M ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Schrodinger-devel mailing list Schrodinger-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/schrodinger-devel
