Re: [Gimp-developer] Parallelization project (for students)

[Victor Oliveira <victormatheus gmail com>]

On Jul 15, 2013 8:01 AM, "Victor Oliveira" <victormatheus gmail com> wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> I've been working with OpenCL in GEGL. I think there is a need in GEGL for
> a multi-threading codepath.
>
> But the work necessary for it is far from trivial, I know Daniel has been
> working on this so I'm copying him.
> On Jul 8, 2013 7:16 AM, "Thomas Karcher (IPD)" <thomas karcher kit edu>
> wrote:
>
> > Dear GIMP developers,
> >
> > we're a team of teaching assistants at KIT Karlsruhe. We'd like to offer
> > a hands-on parallelization course for master students of computer
> > science in the upcoming semester, and our idea is to teach
> > parallelization while actually parallelizing "real" software.
> >
> > For this, we're looking for a suitable project - this is where GIMP
> > comes in: We're hoping that GIMP includes an image filter or some other
> > component that is more or less compute-intense and worth parallelizing.
> > We aspire to provide a contribution to GIMP in form of a working patch
> > that incorporates the parallelization we worked out.
> >
> > Do you see a component in GIMP that would be suitable for us _and_ you?
> > (I am asking you because a) I am lazy and b) as a non-GIMP-developer, I
> > can't possibly have the insight you have or even remotely guess which
> > component might be suitable for us _and_ of use to you once it's
> > parallelized.)
> >
> >
> > Thanks & regards
> > Thomas
> >
> >
> >
> >
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