Am 22.08.2011 09:11, schrieb Ive:

>> OpenCL information:
>> ---------------------------
>> Platform 0
>> OpenCL 1.0 CUDA 4.0.1
>> NVIDIA CUDA
>> NVIDIA Corporation
>>
>> Device 0 - GPU 30 computing units active
>> JIT compiler installed
>> Data types with preferred and native vector width
>> 8bit integer: 1, 0
>> 16bit integer: 1, 0
>> 32bit integer: 1, 0
>> 64bit integer: 1, 0
>> 16bit float: not supported
>> 32bit float: 1, 0
>> 64bit float: 1, 0
>> ---------------------------
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> This isn't the latest NVidea driver or is it?

It's 6.14.12.7533, to which I upgraded in June this year. Don't know if 
there's anything newer by now.

> Anyway related to POV-Ray: OpenCL for 3.7 does IMHO not make any sense
> as it would require major changes within the multi-threading framework.
>
> On the other hand it looks quite straightforward to implement for MCPov
> and as MCPov is currently just single-threaded a 10x speedup when
> running on the GPU seems realistic. Well, most likely I do not see some
> pitfalls there but as time permits I will give it a try.

Mind the recursion.

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