[Bf-committers] CUDA backend implementation for GSoC?

[Daniel Genrich]

Hello,

I just wanted to let you know that from I know is that the first GPU 
language which will most likely be in blender is OpenCl.
The standard for it has been marked 1.0 last week. It will be 
cross-gfx-card and not bound to only nvidia, intel or ati. It just fits 
the blender philosophy of being cross plattform (also in terms of gfx 
cards). gSoC projects regarding that field would be quit interesting 
(not likely for gSoC 2009 IMHO) BUT before that a general map 
how/if/where to include/use OpenCl has to be developed. :-)

Thank you
daniel


Sebastian Kochman schrieb:
> Hello,
> First of all I'd like to say "hello everybody!" as it's my first post
> on this mailing list ;-)
>
> The thread about CUDA has interested me very much, because I was
> thinking recently about the same thing - using this interesting
> technology in Blender. And - as I'm a student - I was also thinking
> about that as a GSoC project :-)
>
> Probably there are a lot of features where CUDA (or other similar
> solutions) would become very useful. What I am thinking about at this
> moment is the particles system - it seems to be a problem ideal to
> solve with GPU.
>
> You can find some CUDA examples on nVidia's site:
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home.html
> They claims that some of that solutions reach 100x, or even much more,
> speed up in comparison to CPU... I'm not sure what it means (which
> GPU? which CPU? what input? I would like to see some more detailed
> results of tests ;-)), but generally those numbers are really
> attractive and maybe it would be a good idea to use CUDA in some parts
> of Blender... :-)
>
> Greetings,
> Sebastian Kochman
> (RaiQ at #blendercoders)
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