Re: [Pharo-dev] Starting making bindings for OpenCL using NativeBoost.

2014-05-08 Thread kilon alios
wow nice, opencl can seriously speed things up for many diffirent kind's of calculation. Blender http://www.blender.org/ is actually porting OpenCL for its rendering engine cycles. Cycles already uses CUDA. They say that openCL is quite buggy yet and not well supported. Whats your experience with

Re: [Pharo-dev] Starting making bindings for OpenCL using NativeBoost.

2014-05-08 Thread Alexandre Bergel
Excellent! Go go go! Alexandre On May 8, 2014, at 2:32 AM, Ronie Salgado ronies...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I started working in making some basic bindings for OpenCL using NativeBoost. Currently I can run basics OpenCL OpenCL kernels. I tried to generate quickly some procedural

Re: [Pharo-dev] Starting making bindings for OpenCL using NativeBoost.

2014-05-08 Thread stepharo
Hi ronie Some questions: do you think that we could have a openCL back-end for athens? do you think that we could avoid having openCL text inside Pharo but have a kind of DSL? Stef On 8/5/14 08:32, Ronie Salgado wrote: Hello, I started working in making some basic bindings for

Re: [Pharo-dev] Starting making bindings for OpenCL using NativeBoost.

2014-05-08 Thread Ronie Salgado
Blender http://www.blender.org/ is actually porting OpenCL for its rendering engine cycles. Cycles already uses CUDA. They say that OpenCL is quite buggy yet and not well supported. Whats your experience with it ? This is actually a problem with the AMD implementation of OpenCL, and yes it

Re: [Pharo-dev] Starting making bindings for OpenCL using NativeBoost.

2014-05-08 Thread kilon alios
thanks for the detailed answer :) I am definitely excited about your project. I am sure however far you will go with it , it will definitely benefit Pharo . Good luck and keep us informed :) On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 11:55 PM, Ronie Salgado ronies...@gmail.com wrote: Blender