User:Sreyanshjainrkl/GSoC18/Project

OpenCL GPGPU Raytracing

Abstract

BRL-CAD objects are made from about two dozen primitives, ray-tracing of which can be quickly realised in a GPU owing to its parallel architecture. There are lot of function calls to see if the shooted ray is intersecting with the primitive and to check on which direction it should be reflected. These calls on different data can be effectively launched on GPU/multi-core CPU if ported into OpenCL to achieve higher speedups.

Methodology

The project has two parts divided as follows:

• Accelerating primitives by porting the ray-primitive intersection (shot) code from C to OpenCL and provide the glue code which packs and unpacks that primitive from the C side to the OpenCL side.
• Developing BREP support involves serializing the ‘ON_BREP *’ of the primitives and passing it to the GPU and then porting the generic ray-BREP intersection code.

Timeline

Tentative timeline of the project over the summer of 2018.

• Upto May 14:
  • Week -2 (30th April - 6th May): Developing HYP shot routine in OCL
  • Week -1 (7th May - 13th May): Accelerating ARBN primitives via OCL

• May 14 - June 15:
  • Week 1 (14th May - 20th May): Developing DSP shot routine in OCL
  • Week 2 (21st May - 27th May): Accelerating PIPE primitives via OCL
  • Week 3 (28th May - 3rd June): Developing METABALL shot routine in OCL
  • Week 4 (4th June - 10th June): Buffer week for finishing pending tasks, validating whether it matches the C version, working on scope of performance improvement in the OCL codes developed
  • Week 5 (11th June - 15th June): Phase I evaluation report submission

• June 16 - July 13:
  • Week 6 (16th June - 24th June): Code perusal and formulating strategies regarding the BREP support
  • Week 7 (25th June - 1st July): Improve the performance of existing OCL codes
  • Week 8 (2nd July - 8th July): Developing code for BREP support in OCL
  • Week 9 (9th July - 13th July): Phase 2 evaluation report submission

• July 13 - August 14:
  • Week 10 (14th July - 22nd July): Porting the generic ray-BREP intersection code
  • Week 11 (23rd July - 29th July): Wrapping up code development for BREP support
  • Week 12 (30th July - 5th Aug): Buffer week to complete pending tasks, testing the raytracers for their performance and benchmarking it on some real examples
  • Week 13 (6th Aug - 14th Aug): Final evaluation report submission

Deliverables

Every shot routines developed in OpenCL also involves verifying and validating if the OpenCL version matches the C version of it in my timeline. Once it does, a final patch for that primitive incorporating the inclusion shall be submitted to integrate the code into the mainline tree as per the proposed schedule. This shall be executed by implementing changes in the primitives bit by bit during the bonding period to get my work authenticated and approved to earn direct commit rights during the coding period.