<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>No, not really. Would be cool to hear AMD developers' progress about their kernel split work here in the list :)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Nazim Mer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nazim.mer@gmail.com" target="_blank">nazim.mer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello Blenderheads,</div><div><br></div>Has any one received an update in regards to the progress of the AMD's developers approach.<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Nazim </div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 December 2014 at 12:17, Sergey Sharybin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sergey.vfx@gmail.com" target="_blank">sergey.vfx@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Nirved, AMD developers announced here in the list they'll be working on splitting the Cycles megakernel to smaller kernels, similar to wavefront path tracer paper.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>So my guess would be that it's more productive to collaborate on that work instead of initializing new one.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 3:33 AM, storm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kartochka22@yandex.ru" target="_blank">kartochka22@yandex.ru</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Great. How are you going to disassemble binary blob, then fix AMD<br>
proprietary OpenCL compiler bugs, assemble/patch binary compiler or make<br>
your own? Or you going Luxrender (Dade) way to toss lines in random<br>
order untill it can render few specific scenes, and hope that next month<br>
Catalyst AMD proprietary blob will not runie it?<br>
<br>
В Вс, 30/11/2014 в 19:46 +0200, Nirved пишет:<br>
<div><div>> Hello,<br>
><br>
><br>
> I'm going to work on finally making cycles work on my hardware - R9<br>
> 290, Linux.<br>
><br>
><br>
> The project has four phases:<br>
><br>
> 1. Parse CPU cycles code.<br>
><br>
> 2. Interpret, estimate performance in best/worst case.<br>
><br>
> 3. Grok code, use statistics from phase 2; divide & conqueror,<br>
> transform & conqueror. This requires some AI.<br>
><br>
> 4. Produce OpenCL code.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Each phase will take about a week.<br>
><br>
><br>
> I expect the project to be done before 6th January; if lucky before<br>
> 24th December.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Regards<br>
><br>
> Nirved<br>
><br>
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