[Bf-cycles] Apple OpenCL and Cycles

[Nazim Mer]

hi
what do i need to do to enable opencl on my cpu, ive already got AMD APP
SDK 2.8 installed.

OR
can u 'BRECHT n team' enable this for everyone

in slg3 opencl is slightly faster than its nonopencl counter part

seasons greatings
nazim mer
On Dec 17, 2012 2:35 PM, "Brecht Van Lommel" <brechtvanlommel at pandora.be>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I believe the main problem with AMD is a hardware limitation that we
> are running into, so using the Apple compiler would not help solving
> that particular problem. But I can't be sure, the compiler is not
> outputting particularly useful information when it fails. Also note
> that the OpenCL kernel currently has many features disabled, they can
> be enabled in kernel_types.h.
>
> I don't think anyone is looking into OpenCL on Apple at the moment. I
> didn't test the latest compiler, but my experience has been that
> OpenCL on the CPU is not a problem, it's when compiling for the GPU
> that the problems start. Regarding performance it's probably not going
> to be great if you get it working, each graphics card tends to have
> some specific things that need to be optimized, so it wouldn't be
> possible to make a judgement on that immediately.
>
> Brecht.
>
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Marcio Andrade <migueletto at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I read that OpenCL development on Cycles is on hold, mainly because of
> compiler/driver problems in the AMD SDK. I have been doing some experiments
> with OpenCL on a Mac, and so far I did not encounter thouse kind of
> problems. After making some small changes to the kernel (basically enabling
> some defines that were commented out in kernel_types.h and fixing one
> compile error), I gave it a try.
> >
> > Compilation is fast and does not give memory errors. On my system the
> kernel is compiled in under 5 seconds. My Mac has a Intel HD 3000 GPU,
> which does not support OpenCL, so in order to make these tests I enabled
> OpenCL on the CPU (a small change to device_opencl.cpp). When I run the
> kernel in Blender, rendering time is close to the normal render using CPU,
> which is expected, since OpenCL Kernel on CPU should be close to the C++
> Kernel on CPU.
> >
> > Apple is the original author of OpenCL, and OpenCL support on Macs seems
> to be pretty decent (no need to install anything, it is already bundled).
> So, is there anyone else trying Cycles/OpenCL on Apple hardware ? I would
> like to know how OpenCL performs on a Mac with a true GPU, to see if its
> worth pursuing this direction.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > migueletto
> >
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