Nat's Blog http://pandion.ferrus.net Because the web needed more blogs Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:32:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Robot control GPU optimization slides http://pandion.ferrus.net/2012/01/robot-control-gpu-optimization-slides/ http://pandion.ferrus.net/2012/01/robot-control-gpu-optimization-slides/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:32:59 +0000 Nat http://pandion.ferrus.net/?p=45 Yesterday I presented a paper at the SPIE Electronic Imaging conference that discussed an attempt this summer with Michael McGuinness to speed up a robot control program by porting some intensive kernels to run on a GPU.

You can download the paper as well as the slides I presented.

]]> http://pandion.ferrus.net/2012/01/robot-control-gpu-optimization-slides/feed/ 0 Bacon: An extension to OpenCL for easier, faster GPU acceleration http://pandion.ferrus.net/2012/01/bacon-an-extension-to-opencl-for-easier-faster-gpu-acceleration/ http://pandion.ferrus.net/2012/01/bacon-an-extension-to-opencl-for-easier-faster-gpu-acceleration/#comments Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:57:40 +0000 Nat http://pandion.ferrus.net/?p=30 The main research project I’ve been working on at school while not distracted by robots is a programming language / compiler called Bacon. In its current form it’s a data parallel C variant that compiles to OpenCL code. It’s pretty neat and worth checking out if you want to write simple GPU accelerated matrix / array code quickly.

 

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