[Emc-users] Using GPU horsepower, was Re: What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-10-26 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 10/26/2012 12:19 PM, dave wrote: On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 11:36 -0400, Kent A. Reed wrote: blah blah blah On the plus side, I expect someday to see someone successfully exploit the GPU to offload some of our CNC calculations from the CPU. The horsepower is there; it's a matter of timing.

Re: [Emc-users] Using GPU horsepower, was Re: What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-10-26 Thread John Stewart
Hmmm - On 2012-10-26, at 12:44 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: On 10/26/2012 12:19 PM, dave wrote: On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 11:36 -0400, Kent A. Reed wrote: Most of the present day GPU's wouldn't even strain handling motion the problem is simply that processors (GPU) are a moving target and

Re: [Emc-users] Using GPU horsepower, was Re: What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-10-26 Thread cogoman
On 10/26/2012 02:47 PM, John Stewart wrote: OpenCL on Linux is ok. At least it was last time I tried it. I started a blog on some stuff I did OpenCL wise: http://gpucomputes.blogspot.com (It was set up not as a technical treatise, but for students) (oh, and I ran the code on OSX for the

Re: [Emc-users] Using GPU horsepower, was Re: What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-10-26 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Fri, 26 Oct 2012, cogoman wrote: Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:21:01 -0400 From: cogoman cogo...@optimum.net Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Using

Re: [Emc-users] Using GPU horsepower, was Re: What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-10-26 Thread andy pugh
On 27 October 2012 00:34, Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com wrote: AFAIK (and I am no expert) the lookahead limitation is not compute bound but rather structural based on a early design decision Indeed not. On modern hardware most paths can probably be fully computed before the end of the