pytart 0.1.4

Vulkan-based GPGPU engine

Tart

Tart is a GPGPU framework written in Vulkan. It is designed to reduce the required boilerplate for harnessing Vulkan's compute capabilities, while still not compromising in flexibility or feature set.

Building

Regardless of interface, you will need gcc, g++, python3 headers, a vulkan driver, and CMake. On Ubuntu and other Debian-based distros, these can be installed by running:

sudo apt install build-essential python3-dev 

The vulkan driver will depend on your device, but most should be accessible through mesa:

sudo apt install mesa-vulkan-drivers

For NVIDIA GPUs, driver install will depend on your GPU architecture. I do not yet have instructions for that.

Python bindings

To install the python bindings, ensure GCC and CMake are installed. Then do the following to install and run the python unit tests.:

git clone https://codeberg.org/softcookiepp/tart.git --recurse-submodules
pip install ".[test]"

C++ library

To build tart with no statically linked compilers:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

To build tart with compilers included (currently only glslang):

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DTART_ENABLE_SHADER_COMPILERS=1 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
make

Testing

Unit tests are built along with everything else by default. Simply execute the following to run them:

./run-tests

Roadmap

• implement enabling of some default extensions for capabilities that are commonly used (partially done)
• make cross-platform, easily installable python bindings (likely will use https://scikit-build-core.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ and https://pybind11.readthedocs.io/en/stable/compiling.html) (in-progress)
• make python bindings for clspv (probably will be a separate project altogether)
• fix bugs and stuff