OpenCL with ATI hardware

[ihar3d]

Hello.

Erwin, Roman could you please say if it is planned to make possible to run OpenCL demo on ATI hardware (as I know they also have OpenCL framework)?

If yes, in what time constraints?

Thanks in advance!

[lvella]

ATI has not publicly released their OpenCL implementation. I believe we will need it before trying anything...

[ihar3d]

ops, I had made a mess, when thought that ATI Stream CAl has it.

[Erwin Coumans]

Erwin, Roman could you please say if it is planned to make possible to run OpenCL demo on ATI hardware (as I know they also have OpenCL framework)?
If yes, in what time constraints?

Yes, we are implementing OpenCL Physics and test with all manufacturers (Apple Snow Leopard, NVidia, AMD/ATI, Intel). We already received confidential implementations, but they are not publically available indeed as lvella mentioned. Alternatively, Bullet's MiniCL stub can process the kernels on single or multi-core CPU, for platforms that don't support OpenCL.

Expect some preliminary version around September timeline. This includes simplified versions of broadphase, narrowphase collision detection and constraint solver all running in OpenCL kernels on GPU or CPU. By the end of this year, we drop the simplifications and use the actual Bullet algorithms for the OpenCL kernels.

Thanks,
Erwin

[ihar3d]

Good news, thanks Erwin!