Real-Time Ray-Tracing in WebGPU

Re:Real-Time Ray-Tracing in WebGPU by darknoon on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @08:03PM (#22050857)

Hey, I really appreciate your work on these bindings. I have done a lot of work with Metal on iOS, and found it frustrating to start over from scratch when trying to combine graphics and deep learning (CUDA on Linux). It would be awesome to see a future where you can write high-performance GPU-driven apps in a cross-platform way with js/webgpu/wasm and slap in platform-specific UI, without bundling all of Unreal or Unity. Running in a browser would be an optional convenience.

Anecdotally, I was trying connect PyTorch's CUDA tensors to the GL textures that Electron/Chrome uses to render in a Canvas without going through CPU memory, but couldn't figure out where to inject my code. Chromium's GPU code is quite a maze. Perhaps a smarter person will be able to accomplish that.

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Re:Real-Time Ray-Tracing in WebGPU by modeless on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @08:27PM (#22050962)

You may be interested in this Chromium fork that Intel is working on which adds a machine learning API, loosely modeled on Android's NNAPI: https://github.com/otcshare/chromium-src/commits/webml

It's not likely to be standardized as is, but the code demonstrates how to integrate something like this into Chromium. There's a Web ML community group that's working to figure out what could be standardized in this area. https://webmachinelearning.github.io/

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Re:Real-Time Ray-Tracing in WebGPU by tehsauce on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @08:10PM (#22050888)

Have you tried tensorflow.js?

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