[Insight-users] ITK+CUDA libraries

[Badri Roysam]

I am interested to hear people's opinion of OpenCL. Do you have to write
2 versions of code (for nVIDIA & ATI), or does a single piece of code
cross-compile for the 2 platforms?
 


Badri Roysam
Professor, Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering
Associate Director, NSF Center for Subsurface Sensing & Imaging Systems (CenSSIS ERC)
Co-Director, Rensselaer Center for Open Source Software
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----- Original Message -----
From: Sean McBride [mailto:sean at rogue-research.com]
To: Michael Pozdnyakov [mailto:mishgunn at gmail.com], insight-users at itk.org
Subject: Re: [Insight-users] ITK+CUDA libraries


> 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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