[Bf-cycles] OpenCL on AMD GPUs

[Nazim Mer]

Hello Blenderheads,

Has any one received an update in regards to the progress of the AMD's
developers approach.

Regards,

Nazim

On 2 December 2014 at 12:17, Sergey Sharybin <sergey.vfx at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> So my guess would be that it's more productive to collaborate on that work
> instead of initializing new one.
>
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 3:33 AM, storm <kartochka22 at yandex.ru> wrote:
>
>> Great. How are you going to disassemble binary blob, then fix AMD
>> proprietary OpenCL compiler bugs, assemble/patch binary compiler or make
>> your own? Or you going Luxrender (Dade) way to toss lines in random
>> order untill it can render few specific scenes, and hope that next month
>> Catalyst AMD proprietary blob will not runie it?
>>
>> В Вс, 30/11/2014 в 19:46 +0200, Nirved пишет:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> >
>> > I'm going to work on finally making cycles work on my hardware - R9
>> > 290, Linux.
>> >
>> >
>> > The project has four phases:
>> >
>> > 1. Parse CPU cycles code.
>> >
>> > 2. Interpret, estimate performance in best/worst case.
>> >
>> > 3. Grok code, use statistics from phase 2; divide & conqueror,
>> > transform & conqueror. This requires some AI.
>> >
>> > 4. Produce OpenCL code.
>> >
>> >
>> > Each phase will take about a week.
>> >
>> >
>> > I expect the project to be done before 6th January; if lucky before
>> > 24th December.
>> >
>> >
>> > Regards
>> >
>> > Nirved
>> >
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