Renting on Altera’s OpenCL on FPGA again.

I'm currently working on porting my ray tracng OpenCL kernel to Altera's FPGA. Yes, I'm porting a OpenCL kernel. Its really frustrating working with Altera's OpenCL SDK. Altera's OpenCL compiler sucks. It took me less then 2 to implement all the host code and write a decent ray tracing kernel with BVH in OpenCL for my...

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Hacking MIOpen to run anywhere and libre ML – lightingtalk@COSCUP 2017 Postscript

MIOpen. What a great library it is. COSCUP 2017 just occurred last weekend. And I decided to attend to the lightning talk on how I get MIOpen to run on non AMD hardware and my vision on what this library could be. If you haven't been at COSCUP. Here are the slides. We all know that...

Building AMD’s MIOpen on a non ROCm(AMD) system

AMD. Please, please write your build script PROPERLY. It really sucks that I have to hack your code to make it work on other's platform. - and that's when all components used are cross platform. Sorry that I got a bit mad when I'm writing this post. There are too much basic things done wrong....

ChaiScript Tutorial (5.5) – Global Variables in ChaiScript

Besides calling ChaiScript functions from C++. You can also access global variables from C++. Global Variables in ChaiScript Unlike most languages, where weather a variable is global or not is defined by if the variable exists in the root scope. Such as the following in C++: ChaiScript uses the global keyword to specify if a variable...

Introduction to SSHFS – the *best* way do transfer files between your PC and you when you are outside and in emergency

Sometimes when I'm in a conference of in a meeting. I need some files that is on my PC but not on my laptop to run my demo program. There's no way I could run back home or to my lab to grab them. And the only thing I have on my PC running(running Linux)...

Building sfeMovie on MSYS2 – A Hacky Way

I'm working on a project to automatically generate Groove Coaster beat maps(?) using machine learning. To gather traning data. I need a desktop application that plays video of other's playing Groove Coaster and I and my friend pressing the appropriate button on a DS4 controller. Getting DS4 button press is easy. SFML has that handled....

Programming in C++ without if/else/for/while/etc..

Recently on of my friends challenges me to write a game in C++ without using any branching and looping expressions. It's really not difficult at all. I could write a game in C and compile it with the M/o/Vfuscator then disassemble it, put all the assembly instructions into my C++ code. Bobs your uncle, challenge done. But what's the...

Hands on bubblegum-96: A small yet powerful device

Bubblegum-96 is a small and powerful ARM development board featuring a PowerVR GPU and a quad core ARM cortex A53 CPU running at 1.8GHz!! It also comes with 2G of RAM! WOW. amazing. Let's see how the crazy specs does in the user experience and the benchmarks. I've only tested and benchmarked this board under Debain...

ChaiScript Tutorial (5) – Calling ChaiScript Functions from C++ and vise versa

With the really limited functionality ChaiScript has. There must be a way to expand it's ability. In this tutorial, we are going to expend ChaiScript's functionality by calling C++ functions in ChaiScript and the reverse. Calling C++ functions in ChaiScript To call C++ functions in C++ from ChaiScript requires 2 steps. Register the C++ function to...