My interview about Brahma is up on DotNetRocks, you can find it here. I hope this helps Brahma’s popularity and remember, contributions are most welcome (samples, help getting Brahma to run on Mono on Linux)!
I’ve recently had a new idea, the concept of using user-defined types with Brahma. This should (hopefully) be out soon! Look out!
From your experience with Brahma, do you think it would be possible to write Vertex and PixelSharder for XNA or WPF using Linq ?
Yes, XNA uses straight HLSL, so that’s possible. Only the ComputationProvider and parts of the data-parallel array would change. If there’s demand for it, I guess a Brahma.Xna is easy enough.
WPF on the other hand presents its own set of problems. I did try to write a Brahma.Wpf which would generate ShaderEffects given queries, but that didn’t work ’cause there’s information I need to do this stuff automatically which WPF doesn’t expose.
Awesome idea! Hi Ananth, pretty impressive coding, it’l take me a while to get my head around it all.
Speedup on my box with the sorting sample is only 2-3x though (still not bad), i’ll look at it to see where the bottleneck is.
Hi Ananth, in your interview you mention OpenCL – there’s a fairly new .net wrapper for it at http://www.hoopoe-cloud.com/Solutions/OpenCL.NET
Could this help with Brahma?
Yes, it most certainly will. That is the very wrapper I am looking at to bring OpenCL support to Brahma.