A Big Push For More OpenCL Hardware Acceleration With GEGL / GIMP

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Phoronix: A Big Push For More OpenCL Hardware Acceleration With GEGL / GIMP

Dutch software firm StreamComputing has launched an educational project aiming to get more developers using OpenCL and as part of this initiative they will try to port as many GEGL operations to OpenCL as possible...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=More-GEGL-OpenCL-Support

[fakenmc]

Great initiative.

[Daktyl198]

This is a great project. I applaud their initiative.

[swoorup]

Maybe ditch GIMP and combine efforts with Blender. Blender is fast

[Veerappan]

Maybe ditch GIMP and combine efforts with Blender. Blender is fast

Sorry, but for the photo editing and retouching I do, a 2D layered image editor is all I need. Why would I want 3D modeling functionality for fixing up images from my DSLR?

And if blender is already fast, why wouldn't someone want to improve the speed of GIMP, which I'm assuming you're implying is slow.

[fakenmc]

why wouldn't someone want to improve the speed of GIMP

Which is exactly the point of this initiative.

[Adarion]

Also Inkscape could use any speedup possible. I don't know how far vector graphics are suitable for OpenCL and such, but if it would help...
I think Darktable already has options to make use of OpenCL acceleration for certain tasks, though I guess the freedom driver stack still has that as "to do" or WIP in the FeatureMatrix.

[StreamComputing]

Here Vincent of StreamComputing. If GEGL-OpenCL is successful, then we're going to launch alike projects. Inkscape could be possible.

[StreamComputing]

Here Vincent Hindriksen of StreamComputing. If GEGL-OpenCL is successful, then we will certainly launch more projects. Each project on OpenCL.org will have the same foundation: "Help open source improve, while you learn and improve OpenCL yourself". But let us now focus on making Gimp really fast - we need all the help there is!

[Michael]

Here Vincent Hindriksen of StreamComputing. If GEGL-OpenCL is successful, then we will certainly launch more projects. Each project on OpenCL.org will have the same foundation: "Help open source improve, while you learn and improve OpenCL yourself". But let us now focus on making Gimp really fast - we need all the help there is!

Hey Vincent, if any of the new OpenCL operations for GEGL/GIMP can be done in an automated manner where I could get it testing via Phoronix-Test-Suite, I'd love to help out and run plenty of benchmarks when the time is right on many GPUs/drivers. Feel freee to message me anytime at michael at phoronix.com. Thanks!