Introduction to Vulkan Compute Shaders

In this video I explain the basics of Vulkan compute shaders. Please see the corresponding blog post for more information: https://necrashter.github.io/ceng469/project/compute-shaders-intro 00:00 Background information 01:54 General purpose GPU without compute shaders 03:25 Compute shaders 03:47 Alternative frameworks 04:37 Why compute shaders? 05:24 Compute shaders in GLSL 08:06 Compute shaders in Vulkan 08:50 vulkan.hpp 09:46 Top-down view of the application 10:16 Setting up 12:14 Allocating memory 14:51 Creating the pipeline 16:14 Submitting work to GPU 18:17 Cleanup 18:35 Final program 18:57 Particle systems 20:46 More advanced simulations on GPU The Vulkan code is based on: https://bakedbits.dev/posts/vulkan-compute-example/ GPU Gems 3: https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/gpugems3/contributors Some images has been taken from Cem Yuksel's lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH-9nfceXFw OpenGL vs. Vulkan picture: https://developer.nvidia.com/transitioning-opengl-vulkan Video card icons created by prettycons - Flaticon: https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/video-card Cpu tower icons created by Good Ware - Flaticon: https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/cpu-tower Particle System Slide: Fire: https://realtimevfx.com/t/sketch-10-jordanov/4273 Smoke: https://giphy.com/gifs/blobbybarack-art-loop-blobby-barack-JUnLuAEjsbUcM Electric zap (game I made called Solalien): https://necrashter.itch.io/solalien