[Insight-users] ITK+CUDA libraries

[Sean McBride]

On Wed, 26 May 2010 18:54:24 +0200, Michael Pozdnyakov said:

>Hi,
>
>Like I told earlier I'm working on multi-resolution 3D rigid  
>registration. I have achieved already some good results and I consider  
>to speedup my code. After little surfing, I discovered CUDA, like a  
>possible solution.
>
>But all this ITK+CUDA project seems strange. The only release I found  
>dates 2009 [http://sourceforge.net/projects/cudaitk/files/], and  
>mailing discussions are not very reassuring [http://old.nabble.com/Re:--
>Insight-developers----Cuda-ITK-td21984144.html 
>].
>
>So, I'd like to ask, if there is some recent libraries, or, it is not  
>a good idea to use CUDA at all.

One problem with CUDA is that it supports only NVIDIA hardware.  Another
alternative is OpenCL:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opencl>

which supports GPUs (ATI & NVIDIA) and CPUs.  Though I'm not aware of
anyone combining ITK and OpenCL.

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