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- From: Carson Brownlee <
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- Subject: [Manta] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Where does one find ... FindManta.cmake?
- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:53:14 -0700
hi Austin,
I don't suppose you could tell me if they're switching to OpenCL or
writing a separate CPU implementation of Optix? I too would be very
interested in a CPU Optix as I built a program that takes OpenGL calls
and converts them to Manta for rendering on compute clusters.
thanks,
Carson
On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 16:48 -0700, Austin Robison wrote:
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A CPU fallback path for OptiX is one of our most requested features;
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we're working on it =)
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(GeForce support is coming very soon as well)
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~Austin
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On Jan 14, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Carson Brownlee
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> the manta-project requires the same specification of build and source
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> directories as your implementation. There is no make install style
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> installation that would install to /usr/include/manta and /usr/lib or
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> anything of that sort that I know of. This could easily be done if
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> decide on a default installation location however it's just a matter
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> copying the src folders and build/include folders to a default include
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> directory and then the build/lib over to a default lib directory.
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> as for Optix, this probably isn't much of an option if you're
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> using ray tracing to begin with because it's running on cpu based
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> compute clusters without gpus which I think Dave is looking at.
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> Perhaps that will change if they switch to OpenCL.
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> Carson
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> On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 16:54 -0500, David E DeMarle wrote:
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>> I'll take an out of date version for now.
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>> I am specifically looking to improve upon what is in vtkManta's
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>> cmakelist.txt.
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>> There the user has to manually specify both the Manta source and
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>> build
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>> directories. My first thought was to add a @DEFINE@ to
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>> vtkMantaConfigure.h.in which tells where the source is (as for vtk),
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>> which would make it so the user only has to specify the build tree,
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>> but y'all might already do soemthing better.
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>> Two more questions while I have people's attention:
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>> 1) Is there doxygen for the Manta class hierarchy?
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>> 2) Has/does anyone use Manta on windows? We are pursuing changes to
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>> allow that, but if y'all have it working somehow we don't want to
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>> duplicate effort.
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>> David E DeMarle
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>> Kitware, Inc.
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>> R&D Engineer
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>> 28 Corporate Drive
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>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
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>> Phone: 518-371-3971 x109
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>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Thiago Ize
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>>> Yeah, we had some svn server changes that ended up mucking with
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>>> permissions.
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>>> Abe would need to make that directory public or Abe could copy
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>>> that into the
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>>> Manta repository. I have a copy of Manta-project on my machine
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>>> that I can
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>>> pass to you, but it might be an older version than what Abe has.
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>>> Thiago
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>>> David E DeMarle wrote:
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>>>> http://mantawiki.sci.utah.edu/manta/index.php/Manta_project
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>>>> says that there is a sample external project, which includes a
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>>>> FindManta.cmake, here:
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>>>> svn co https://code.sci.utah.edu/svn/people/abe/code/Manta-project/
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>>>> Manta-project
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>>>> but I can't svn checkout that...
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>>>> How do I get it?
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>>>> (hmm, maybe someone could point me to a
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>>>> FindFindManta.cmake.cmake ...)
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>>>> David E DeMarle
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>>>> Kitware, Inc.
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>>>> R&D Engineer
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>>>> 28 Corporate Drive
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>>>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
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>>>> Phone: 518-371-3971 x109
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