Re: [CsMain] [GSoc 2010] GSoC application for lighter2 improvements

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> Actually, you would check both GPU and CPU support for OpenCL.
> It's not GPU specific, any conformant processor can run any kernel.
> I believe AMD have already released some OpenCL CPU drivers.
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Well if that is the case the things might be simpler, but still the
implementation needs to be more generic sorts. In this case I would first
prefer to define at a conceptual level that how I am going to do parallelism
(as in the tasks which are supposed to be parallelized). If support for
OpenCL is available then use it for parallelizing, otherwise use threading
for the parallel tasks.

Infact, honestly speaking even I am more excited to work on photon mapping,
and get great results through it. But still I would first prefer to figure
out that if the tasks I have mentioned in my application excluding
parallelization, are good enough to be considered enough for a GSoC project,
considering the thing that photon mapping has already been worked upon last
summers, then I would prefer to go with photon mapping.

I would probably contact Scott regarding his opinions on this topic. If it
is felt that the tasks I aim to accomplish regarding photon mapping are not
enough for a GSoC project, and it is expected to accomplish much more than
this in 11 weeks time, then I would probably think of working on
parallelization.

Regards,
Mohit Taneja



> But anyway, I agree with everyone that parallelism here is a project in
> itself, better to concentrate on photon mapping *or* that.
> I would prefer to see photon mapping finished :)
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