Beta 1.1.0.30 at start !!!

[spoilerhead]

well imho the problem is: if you activate openCL some pipeline steps get run entirely on the GPU. (correct me if i'm wrong) i think a more sensible approach would be to schedule a small percentage of the tiles on the CPU, to keep both of them busy.

But i can't test. ATI doesn't support openCL 1.2 on my HD4870 (1.2 Teraflops idline:( )

[greerd]

Don't know if this is the right thread but here's my numbers running Ubuntu 12.10 on an i7 920, 12 G with a GTX260 nvidia GPU.
I batched 18 E-M5 .orf files.
none -> 0.48 sec/image
min -> 0.471 ''
low -> 0.672 "
std -> 0.733 "
hi -> 0.756 "
none -> 0.506 "

[greerd]

Don't know if this is the right thread but here's my numbers running Ubuntu 12.10 on an i7 920, 12 G with a GTX260 nvidia GPU.
I batched 18 E-M5 .orf files.
none -> 0.48 sec/image
min -> 0.471 ''
low -> 0.672 "
std -> 0.733 "
hi -> 0.756 "
none -> 0.506 "

Actually, the images above were half jpegs, hence the fast times. Shotwell (my importer) has a bug which which takes the raw jpeg out and calls it XXX.orf.jpg (with an Olympus camera) and ASP's filter sees these files as raw.

[stefanve]

For me this version is more stable than the last official release, working with layers on 20MP files it hasn't crashed on me once (slowed down but no crash), the official release crashed way to often. So I'm using this version now.

as for openCL I'm not to surprised that it is not faster when you look at the specs. Most benchmarks posted are high-end cpu's vs low-end graphics (and some mid-end). while the gpu can do more FLOPS than the CPU, the CPU talks directly with the memory bus and has lo level caches. So with a relative small operation like converting raw to jpg it is not a real surprise to me that it isn't faster. I thing if you have a core i3 with mid-range graphics you could see some improvements. As I have a high-end cpu / low-end gpu combo my self I can't test this.
Also ASP has been optimized for years to run on cpu's so I can imagine it will take some time to catch up with openCL.

on a site note I tried lightroom 4 on windows (64bit) (I used LR4 on mac before switching to linux) and when using spot removal on a 20MP file while being zoomed in 150% it slowed down beyond the point of being use full. while ASP works really fast even with multiple layers. So as for speed or h/w choice ASP still seems to be the way to go.

[pekkal]

What a piece of lameness.
Thanks to a hint from andreas I found the problem (missing 32bit libnvidia-opencl.so in the Nvidia 64bit driver) that prevented me from activating OpenCL in AS and can now play with the OpenCL version.
afx

afx,

can you expand on the solution: where do I get missing file(s) and where I need to install it?

PekkaL

[afx]

can you expand on the solution: where do I get missing file(s) and where I need to install it?

Download the 32bit driver, unpack it, grab libnvidia-opencl.so.???.?? and copy it to /usr/lib32 and symlink it to libnvidia-opencl.so and libnvidia-opencl.so.1

I've reported the missing lib to Nvidia, so I hope the next driver will not need that workaround.

cheers
afx

[Zarastro]

can you expand on the solution: where do I get missing file(s) and where I need to install it?

Download the 32bit driver, unpack it, grab libnvidia-opencl.so.???.?? and copy it to /usr/lib32 and symlink it to libnvidia-opencl.so and libnvidia-opencl.so.1

I've reported the missing lib to Nvidia, so I hope the next driver will not need that workaround.

Interesting that I'm running 310.14 here which I've built the rpm's myself (running FC17 here) and it should be a bug in the installer since I have had this file in both architectures (32/64 bits) since the 304.x days.

Which distribution do you run afx? Ubuntu?

[afx]

Which distribution do you run afx? Ubuntu?

Yes, 12.04.
The bug is in the Nvidia shipped installer.

cheers
afx

[afx]

Thanks to a hint from andreas I found the problem (missing 32bit libnvidia-opencl.so in the Nvidia 64bit driver) that prevented me from activating OpenCL in AS and can now play with the OpenCL version.

can you expand on the solution: where do I get missing file(s) and where I need to install it?

Ok, the latest driver seems to have that lib included now:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-disp ... river.html

cheers
afx

[Quicksand]

HOLD ON A SECOND.

Are you suggesting that a company shipped a software product with a bug, was made aware of the bug, then updated the software to fix the bug in a reasonably prompt period of time?

That's crazy talk.

[_andreas_]

Yes, they did!

Today I got the update to version 304.64 for my Opensuse 12.1. and OpenCl is detected by ASP.
But now kpowermangement is broken - (since update 304.43 / 304.64 )

Cheers

Andreas

[clifford]

I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 64bit with the AMD driver 12.11 (i also tried with driver 12.10) and an AMD HD5450 video card. When I enable opencl in aftershot pro i get these strange artefacts on my screen over the photos, that seem to be random in how many appear or position of them:

http://ubuntuone.com/0uofCeRKQMPGYaItt0CkvY

this occurs no matter what level of opencl I apply. Anyone else experiencing this or have any ideas?

Cheers.

[afx]

Applying Nuance in regions gives interesting results....

And that is machine that does not even support OpenCL....

cheers
afx

[jknights]

Applying Nuance in regions gives interesting results....

Nuance-Region-AS-1.1.0.30.jpg

And that is machine that does not even support OpenCL....

cheers
afx

I get the same on my Macbook Air that doesnt support OpenCL.
I have found that you need to rebuild the preview to get a decent rendering!! Only came about when the OCL was added.

[Hobgoblin]

Applying Nuance in regions gives interesting results....
afx

I've just switched back to 1.1.0.10 and find the Nuance issues exist there as well.
Cleaned the Cache and deleted associated xmp's, tried again with same results.
Seemst this issue may have been around prior to the introduction of the CL Code.

R.