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UPDATE FROM MABULA

I have had a very rough 2 months unfortunately health wise. I was struck 3x in a row with bacterial infections. The second infection occurred  after a routine hospital checkup and I became very sick. I had to rest and take a lot of antibiotics. Once I was recovering and restarting work 1 month ago, I again became sick. The infection was not yet gone, so even more antibiotics and rest was needed. Needless to say, it took a lot of my energy and I needed a lot of rest.

 

Finally, the infection is really gone and my energy is coming back step-by-step now and I have started work again. I am terribly sorry to have kept you waiting for support. I will address all outstanding questions and e-mails step-by step and will be on the forum daily from today.

 

APP 2.0.0-beta47 will come soon as well, a lot of work was already completed before I became very ill, so the release is also nearly ready for you. Beta47 will be much faster actually. Many workflows will be more than 2x faster, mosaics can even be 10x faster than before because registration really received a major boost... all compared to beta46.  Before I release it, I will make sure that everything is working properly and then I will release it.

CUDA Processing

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(@stastro)
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@mabula @vincent

In my Ice Lake platform, I have a couple of NVIDIA A4000 GPUs that are extremely good at data processing, even though the GPUs are not being used for display purposes, will APP still use them for processing?

Simon



   
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(@Anonymous 174)
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GPU support is not there yet, it is something we want to add, but it's not the highest on the list at the moment. We do know this would be very nice to have though, when 2.0 stable is out I will discuss the future road with Mabula and this will definitely be checked.



   
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(@lammertus)
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IMHO this is a very important request, already known for a lot of time!

The difference when using CUDA is astonishing!

I hope to see this implemented so APP will really be fast.

Regards,

Mert



   
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(@codyja)
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I would love to see this feature added as well. The speed improvement when using GPU processing for other applications has such a positive impact on workflows and experience. 



   
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To put this into perspective, I just enabled CUDA processing in Pixinsight with BlurXterminator ans StarXterminator, on my 6-panel Mosaic of the Crescent nebula and surround area, my 286mpx image, just running StarXterminator with a 32 Core CPU and 512GB RAM it would take 45 minutes to remove the stars.

The test I have just done with a single GPU CUDA processing took 2m28s to complete the same action

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