[arch-general] Wiki entry for GPGPU / OpenCL / CUDA

[Vojtěch Král]

Hi, thanks for response. I just redesigned the article a bit, hope
it's still ok ;-)
I'll have a look at that imagemagick's opencl, I'll see what I can find out...
~kralyk

2011/8/9 XeCycle <xecycle at gmail.com>:
> Vojtěch Král <kral.vojtech at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hey everyone,...
>>  From recent discussions about troubles with OpenCL as well as
>> comments in AUR,
>> forums, etc.. I got the impression that the whole thing is pretty
>> confusing for an outsider... and for an insider too for that matter.
>> So I put up a wiki entry.
>>
>> So far it's a wip article on my wiki profile here:
>>  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Kralyk/GPGPU
>>
>> I'd like you to
>>  + have a look at it and tell me what you think of it ;-)
>
> Nice work.  Well, yes, CUDA is missing.
>
>>  + check if my wording is tolerable enough - English isn't my native
>> language, feel free to correct
>
> I think it OK, I'm not native English speaker either.
>
>>  + See if you know anything about the (missing) Nvidia/CUDA parts
>> I myself am not really acquainted with CUDA and Nvidia-flavoured OpenCL
>> so I'd like to ask if someone CUDA-savvy out there would be so kind as
>> to help out and fill in those gaps.
>
> But I don't know that --- I have an ATI card myself.
>
>> Regards,
>> ~kralyk
>
> I learned that ImageMagick supports OpenCL processing, and I tried with
> my card, but failed.  Those samples from amdstream worked fine, but
> ImageMagick always failed with it.  Could you please write something on
> that?  And perhaps more on other software that supports OpenCL.
>
> --
> Carl Lei (XeCycle)
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