GLVisualize.jl
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Integration with CUBLAS/CLBLAS?
Does GLVisualize integrate well with any of the GPU programming packages? For example,
https://github.com/JuliaGPU/CLBLAS.jl
or
https://github.com/JuliaGPU/CUBLAS.jl
It would be nice to do the computation and plotting all on the GPU 😀
That is our secret master plan :) @SimonDanisch once experimented with OpenCL -> OpenGl interop, but we didn't get very far and I don't think anything has been done in that direction.
I have to correct you @vchuravy, I actually put ArrayFire and CUDArt integration into the mix since then ;) So this should also work with CUBLAS and CLBLAS, if they don't do anything weird. It happened quite recently and I haven't found time to nicely integrate it yet... But if you want to, I can share a few scripts which should get you started!
ArrayFire looks really cool! Exactly what I need I think...
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On 26 Apr 2016, at 18:44, Simon [email protected] wrote:
I have to correct you @vchuravy, I actually put (ArrayFire)[https://github.com/JuliaComputing/ArrayFire.jl] and CUDArt integration into the mix since then ;) So this should also work with CUBLAS and CLBLAS, if they don't do anything weird. It happened quite recently and I haven't found time to nicely integrate it yet... But if you want to, I can share a few scripts which should get you started!
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It is pretty cool :) It has some performance problems, but I hope they're easily fixable (it consumes way too much GPU memory in my trivial example). But this is probably a problem with the Julia wrapper and might be fixed soon. Also, I wasn't using inplace operations and I'd be surprised if ArrayFire doesn't actually offer inplace variants in some way.
Here is how you can try things out:
# Cxx must be installed and working!
Pkg.checkout("CUDArt", "sd/gl_interop")
Pkg.clone("https://github.com/JuliaGPU/ArrayFire.jl")
Pkg.checkout("GLVisualize", "sd/gpgpu")
Pkg.checkout("GLWindow")
then you can try out the gravity notebook Haven't tried this out on any other machine yet and it took me quite a while to set up everything correctly, so this might as well not work out of the box...
The plan is to add this painlessly, by putting the interop code into GLAbstraction/AbstractGPU array and make GLVisualize accept any kind of GPUArray, which should be pretty straight forward ;)
