[Bf-cycles] OpenCL on AMD GPUs

[Sergey Sharybin]

Hi,

No, not really. Would be cool to hear AMD developers' progress about their
kernel split work here in the list :)

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Nazim Mer <nazim.mer at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>
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