[Intro] Hello

[Sarma Tangirala]

I just joined this project. How do I get started?

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Sarma Tangirala,

Senior - Class of 2012,

Department of Information Science and Technology,

College of Engineering Guindy - Anna University

[kr...@polarlights.net]

Hi Sarma,

Just download the project, test the different algorithm. Also, read about the theory because it can be complex.

And then, start to develop.

I add you as a contributor ;-)

Welcome

[Sarma Tangirala]

Thanks.

Will do!

Sent from my BlackBerry

[kr...@polarlights.net]

Please can you tell more about you and your thesis please ?

Krys

-----Original Message-----
From: "Sarma Tangirala" <tvssarm...@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 2:05pm
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Subject: [Intro] Hello

[Sarma Tangirala]

I have not actually decided a topic but have told my advisor that I will be working on parallel programming.

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Regards,

[Sarma Tangirala]

This is at the undergrad level!

[kr...@polarlights.net]

So,

A very interesting project will be to port the Duane Merril scan and radix-sort from CUDA to OpenCL.

The challenge is that it should work too on AIT GPU and any CPU. You can even optimize it for ATI !

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~dgm4d/
http://code.google.com/p/back40computing/

[Sarma Tangirala]

Thanks for the advice!

[Sarma Tangirala]

Hi Krys,

We had a few emails exchanged when you first advertised about CLPP. I haven't been able to do much regarding it given that a parallel programming class was not offered for the past year. I have since taken AI as my thesis topic and have submitted material for the initial review and it has passed. Further work does not occur until next year as that is the semester stipulated for thesis. Until then I am devoting my time to working on code and am willing to help out for CLPP; I just posted on the mailing list.

Hope you can continue to guide me and give me a fresh start.

[kr...@polarlights.net]

Thanks a lot :-)

Just to let you know I think that the next step is to produce a version 1.0 of CLPP.
So, what is missing :

1 - There is a bug with the sorting algorithm, only for the ATI GPU. The graphic cards is locked due to synchronization problem. I haven't got any time to fix it !
It is the issue here : http://code.google.com/p/clpp/issues/detail?id=4

2 - Implementing Bitonic sort for the GPU. In fact, at least for the first step I thinkg that we can use the code from http://www.bealto.com/gpu-sorting_intro.html

I have been in touch with Eric Bainville and he allow us to integrate it in CLPP. I think that we only have to do some adaptation to match the CLPP library structure, interfaces etc...

So, if you are interested to help us, I think it is a good way to start.
But now it is up to you.

Thanks