Greetings,
As part of an internship at Kitware, I’m going to work on improving vtk SMP tools. And we would like to engage the broader VTK community for ideas and feedback.
The main goal of this work is to support VTK-m as a new backend of the SMP tools.
Some intermediate tasks will be to integrate more utility functions (inspired by VTK-m algorithms) such as Transform and Fill in vtkSmpTools.
As a potential thing to do we could also refactor SMP tools current architecture to support multiple backends at compile and select one at runtime.
Other non-exhaustive features could be: the support of lambdas, an environment variable to control the number of threads…
We are open to any suggestions you may have.
Let me know what your thoughts are about this, and if you have any questions.
Thanks for your attention,
Timothée Couble