[LAD] FLTK vs GTKmm

Steve Harris steve at plugin.org.uk
Tue Aug 11 06:45:01 UTC 2009


On 11 Aug 2009, at 07:16, Jens M Andreasen wrote:
>
> If anybody would be interested in doing a concerted effort of  
> optimizing
> PCIe transfers in jackd for cross platform CUDA audio processing,  
> then -
> well - I am here, as well as over at the CUDA forums. I imagine  
> that, as
> seen from say qjackctl, this should just look the same as any other
> hardware you may have - like a sound-card - with 32 or perhaps 64
> channels in/out. What happens at the other side, what those channels
> connects to, would be up to the user/programmer. Running several  
> kernels
> in succession, the one piped into the other has very little overhead,
> although it might be a better strategy to do different parts of the
> scene in parallel on neighboring processors. Very few people who does
> not work at TU-Berlin actually needs more than 640 channel strips ;)

If that's what the CUDA interface to the outside world looks like then  
wouldn't it be better to expose it as a JACK App, which loads CUDA- 
specific plugins onto the graphics card?

I don't see why you'd want to embed it in the jack daemon.

- Steve



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