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1. Support 2. OpenCL

Submitted by amiga on Sat, 04/18/2009 - 09:02

Hi,

1. Can I count on the agate team to continue and support this project? It doesn't seem to be alive as some other projects around.

2. out of curiosity - There will be some use of the upcoming openCL language?

Thanks.

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#1Submitted by kanato on Wed, 08/19/2009 - 14:48.

Amiga, I don't know if you're

Amiga, I don't know if you're still around, but OpenTK has recently added OpenCL bindings that need testing, if you are interested in furthering OpenCL on .NET.

http://www.opentk.com/news/C%2523-opencl-bindings-ready-for-testing

#2Submitted by kanato on Sat, 04/18/2009 - 10:32.

1. Yes, I will be continuing

1. Yes, I will be continuing to develop Agate for quite some times. There doesn't seem to be as much activity on the forums, this is mainly because I have not spent a lot of time promoting the library. But rest assured, development will continue at a steady pace.

2. I don't have any real plans to use any sort of GPGPU. In the tests I have done games using AgateLib are generally GPU bound rather than CPU bound, so off loading some of the CPU's processing onto the GPU would probably make performance worse. I think stuff like OpenCL is more applicable to things like scientific calculations which don't traditionally use the GPU.

#3Submitted by amiga on Sat, 04/18/2009 - 11:12.

well, the openCL thing is

well, the openCL thing is still immature so I can't really tell. But, as I get it, it's not aim to off load the CPU, but mainly to give a unified solution for a programmer whatever he does in such applications.

What I mean is that you won't have to think which task belongs to which GPU/GPGPU/CPU and etc. though you can. It simplifies the programming of these applications.

Yes, Nvidia and AMD and Intel are announcing they will support it with their Cuda/GPGPU APIs or something, but that doesn't mean openCL aimed for GPGPUs style.

#4Submitted by Agon on Sat, 04/18/2009 - 09:33.

Hi, 1. Well it is not a

Hi,

1.
Well it is not a popular commercial project there you have nearly 100% safety that the engine will be developed in future.
But if you look at the svn commits kanato is committing regularly. The last commit is two days old and for only one active developer in an open source project this is often.

2.
Well I don´t know what openCL is but wikipedia says it is a new software, so it will take time to get it on hardware and software....