GOCL: Bringing OpenCL To GNOME Software

[newwen]

Or interface with OpenCL via GTK+ using the new wrapper and offload Darktable/Gnumeric/PulseAudio/Jack/Blender, etc., to stupid resource wasting stuff like Splash screens, Window Managers, and hell Web Services. What's lacking is imagination.

They need speedups somewhere else now that they're going full javascript.

[curaga]

Yup, the sorts I've seen were 5-10x faster than the cpu, but they were also wasting a lot of the gpu power (and so watts) due to not being fully parallelizable.

I wouldn't go through the trouble for a speed increase that low, but it might make sense for someone else.

[pingufunkybeat]

If only there were a fully parallelizable sort algorithm, that is :P

Luckily, things don't have to be FULLY parallelizable for GPUs to bring significant speedups

Even if something is mostly parallelizable (and many algorithms are), it can still make sense to use all that GPU power.

[curaga]

If only there were a fully parallelizable sort algorithm, that is :P

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Now you can sort your photos using your graphics card.

Or interface with OpenCL via GTK+ using the new wrapper and offload Darktable/Gnumeric/PulseAudio/Jack/Blender, etc., to stupid resource wasting stuff like Splash screens, Window Managers, and hell Web Services. What's lacking is imagination.

[Calinou]

Now you can sort your photos using your graphics card.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GOCL: Bringing OpenCL To GNOME Software

GOCL has been introduced, a new GLib/GObject wrapper to OpenCL for GNOME applications. This new wrapper library seeks to make it easier for GNOME software to take advantage of OpenCL...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTM2NTI