Hi there!
I did not post here for a while because I am very busy right now! I am working on my last paper for my PhD thesis and the deadline is by the end of march... I had do conduct an experiment, process some data and now I am parsing the ANOVA results and this in parallel to the writing of the paper. After this last deadline, I will begin to write my PhD manuscript in English! :) So exciting!
During the few free time I found (almost at night), I test Battlefield Bad Company 2 with friends. Also, I implement spherical harmonic lighting for the purpose of ambient lighting of dynamically moving objects in the current "3d engine" I develop (a light pre-pass renderer with relief-mapping on all surfaces and other cool features).
And, as written in the title, I am currently learning CUDA! Indeed, I have bought the new book by David Kirk and Wen-mei W. Hwu called Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach. I found this book well written and it nicely introduces CUDA. Good job authors! I only had a large overview of the CUDA architecture but now it is clear in details.
The first thing I did is to take an example in the nVidia CUDA browser and make it independent of their cutil library and others. To build and run my example, You should just need to install the CUDA Toolkit. You can download this simple program HERE. It features a simple grid of points which height is computed using CUDA and stored in a VBO. The result is finally displayed using OpenGL. Only Debug and Release configurations work (32 and 64bits). Emulation profiles will not compile right now. Also, the CUDA code is nicely separated from the c++ code, something I did not find in every web examples. The other libraries used are glut, glu and glew (everything is in the zip file).
So when I will have finished to read the book (and implemented their examples), I may start writing a little demo... :D
See you soon!
I did not post here for a while because I am very busy right now! I am working on my last paper for my PhD thesis and the deadline is by the end of march... I had do conduct an experiment, process some data and now I am parsing the ANOVA results and this in parallel to the writing of the paper. After this last deadline, I will begin to write my PhD manuscript in English! :) So exciting!
During the few free time I found (almost at night), I test Battlefield Bad Company 2 with friends. Also, I implement spherical harmonic lighting for the purpose of ambient lighting of dynamically moving objects in the current "3d engine" I develop (a light pre-pass renderer with relief-mapping on all surfaces and other cool features).
And, as written in the title, I am currently learning CUDA! Indeed, I have bought the new book by David Kirk and Wen-mei W. Hwu called Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach. I found this book well written and it nicely introduces CUDA. Good job authors! I only had a large overview of the CUDA architecture but now it is clear in details.
The first thing I did is to take an example in the nVidia CUDA browser and make it independent of their cutil library and others. To build and run my example, You should just need to install the CUDA Toolkit. You can download this simple program HERE. It features a simple grid of points which height is computed using CUDA and stored in a VBO. The result is finally displayed using OpenGL. Only Debug and Release configurations work (32 and 64bits). Emulation profiles will not compile right now. Also, the CUDA code is nicely separated from the c++ code, something I did not find in every web examples. The other libraries used are glut, glu and glew (everything is in the zip file).
So when I will have finished to read the book (and implemented their examples), I may start writing a little demo... :D
See you soon!
