[Gegl-developer] Optimisations

[Henrik Akesson]

Hi,

This is the first time I write on this list, so I'll introduce myself  
briefly:

I've been working/developing for the european space industry for 7  
years, but have decided that I want to do SW research, which is why  
I'm currently doing a Master (to be followed by a PhD).

During this MSc I'm specialising in parallelism.

The second half of this master, (first half of 2009) is a research  
project. This will be on the subject of optimising image treatment  
algorithms using different parallel languages/addons such as :
- CUDA
- AMD Stream
- OpenMP
- MPI
- the Barcelona Supercomputing Center's Cell/SMP Superscalar

So, now to the point: I'd like to know if you would find it useful if  
I do and contribute this work on algoritms in GEGL?

Would you have any restrictions on which technologies to use  
(availability of open source compiler/runtime, size etc...) ?

If it interests you, could you point me towards the algorithms that  
needs performance?


Regards,

Henrik