Re: [matplotlib-devel] Make matplotlib running on GPU/CUDA

2017-09-21 Thread Thomas Caswell
Depending on the exact use case you can get pretty good mileage out of blitting (See http://matplotlib.org/api/animation_api.html#funcanimation for an explanation or how it is used in the widgets module). The best way to make things faster is to just do less work :) Tom On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 5

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Make matplotlib running on GPU/CUDA

2017-09-21 Thread Chris Barker
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 12:31 AM, Francesco Faccenda wrote: > I have to admit I already stumbled on VisPy while doing my research on the > web. Still, I've got a lot of code already working with *matplotlib*. > Indeed, not only I plot data with it, but i manage a lot of *mpl events* > to provide

Re: [matplotlib-devel] [Matplotlib-devel] Make matplotlib running on GPU/CUDA

2017-09-14 Thread Francesco Faccenda
Thank you, Ben. unfortunately I don't have experience developing opengl neither, but I'd like to make an attempt riesuming this subject. I am starting from this: https://github.com/ChrisBeaumont/mplgl Can anyone confirm this is the last update we have for this project? Francesco Faccenda 2017-

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Make matplotlib running on GPU/CUDA

2017-09-13 Thread Francesco Faccenda
Thank you Chris for your reply. I have to admit I already stumbled on VisPy while doing my research on the web. Still, I've got a lot of code already working with *matplotlib*. Indeed, not only I plot data with it, but i manage a lot of *mpl events* to provide the users usefool tools, like lines p

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Make matplotlib running on GPU/CUDA

2017-09-12 Thread Chris Barker
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 8:47 AM, Francesco Faccenda 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

[matplotlib-devel] Make matplotlib running on GPU/CUDA

2017-09-12 Thread Francesco Faccenda
Greetings to everyone, I'm Francesco Faccenda and I'm developing a sfotware in *python* where I need to show some charts, so I chose matplotlib as a plot library. Anyway, since lots of data are shown on matplotlip stages (thousands of curves with hundreds of points each), the charts become very