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1 Developer Tools Bonn, Germany

2 Choices in GPU Programming Application e.g. in C/C++, Java, Fortran, Perl Window manager e.g. GLUT, Qt, Win32, Motif Operating Graphics system hardware e.g. e.g. Windows, Unix, Radeon (ATI), Linux, MacOS GeForce (NV) Shader programs e.g. in HLSL, GLSL, Cg Graphics API e.g. OpenGL, DirectX I2

3 DirectX Choices Operating System Windows Window manager Win32, GLUT, Qt, Programming languages C/C++/C#, Basic, Delphi, Perl,.NET Framework Shader languages HLSL/FX, Cg/CgFX, DirectX pixel- and vertex-shader Stream languages Brook I3

4 DirectX Tools FX Composer, NVPerfHUD (NVIDIA) HLSL shader IDE and performance analysis, real-time statistics RenderMonkey (ATI) HLSL, GLSL shader IDE and performance analysis EffectEdit (Microsoft) Interactive HLSL renderer msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/directx9_c/ directx/graphics/tutorialsandsamples/samples/effectedit.asp ShaderWorks (Mad Software) HLSL shader IDE I4

5 FX Composer - Screenshot I5 FX Composer courtesy of NVIDIA

6 NVPerfHUD - Screenshot I6 NVPerfHUD courtesy of NVIDIA

7 RenderMonkey - Screenshot I7 RenderMonkey courtesy of ATI

8 OpenGL Choices Operating System Linux/Unix, Windows, MacOS, OS/2, BeOS Window manager GLUT, GTK+, Qt, Win32, Motif, Programming languages C/C++, Java, Fortran, Ada, Python, Perl, Pike Shader languages GLSL, Cg/CgFX, OpenGL fragment- and vertex-shader Stream languages Brook, Sh I8

9 OpenGL Tools NVShaderPerf (NVIDIA) HLSL, OpenGL fragment shader performance analysis RenderMonkey (ATI) HLSL, GLSL shader IDE and performance analysis Babelshader (D. Horn) Translator: DirectX pixelshader to OpenGL fragment shader OpenGL Panther Tools (Apple) OpenGL vertex and fragment shader IDE, profiling tools developer.apple.com/opengl/panther.html OpenGL Shader Designer (Typhoon Labs) GLSL shader IDE I9

10 Shader Debugger Visual debugging with the shader IDEs (Windows,MacOS) FX Composer (DX), RenderMonkey (DX&GL), EffectEdit (DX), ShaderWorks (DX), Panther Tools (GL), Shader Designer (GL) Shader Debugger Tool (Microsoft) HLSL debugger extension for Visual Studio IDE msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/enus/directx9_c/directx/graphics/tools/shaderdebugger.asp Imdebug The Image Debugger (B. Baxter) Analysis of images output by shaders, easy integration Shadesmith (T. Purcell, P. Sen) Interactive OpenGL fragment shader debugger graphics.stanford.edu/projects/shadesmith/ I10

11 Shader Debugger imdebug Shadesmith images courtesy of Tim Purcell I11

12 Many More Tools Plug-ins for various content creator programs Texture conversion and compression Normal maps Mesh optimization Available online for free ary/en-us/directx9_c/directx/graphics/tools/tools.asp I12

13 How To Get Started? Visit the base: papers, code, news, links Get the Hello example and experiment Get a SDK with plenty of examples For discussion go to www. gpgpu.org/forums I13

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