Hybridizer Essentials Pro Release

We juste released a new version of Hybridizer Essentials

We now support commercial licenses!

Trial period has been extended to 3 months. Then it’s 200€ / machine / year. Free for students, academics and hobbyists (upon request).

We worked hard to change our licensing model, but in the meantime, we worked on the product itself. Check out the news:

What’s new:

  • CUDA 9.2 support
  • Extended trial period (3 months)
  • Support of commercial licenses
  • Documentation! We published both general and API doc
  • MSI based installed instead of VSIX
  • Complete rewrite of Visual Studio integration. Should be faster and better looking.
  • Free for academics/students and hobbyists (upon request)
  • New features and bug fixes:
    • Heap allocation of primitive types arrays (new float[32])
    • Faster kernel startup
    • WDDM automatic detection to help detect driver timeout issue
    • More examples in the SDK (april_update branch until release)
    • Faster compilation on large code bases with many virtual functions
    • Streams support
    • Possible to register dll with an assembly attribute instead of explicit dll name in the code

MSI troubleshooting

If you happen to be blocked at MSI install/uninstall, first create an issue on github.

Here are the steps to completely uninstall Hybridizer Essentials MSI.

  • Uninstall it from Control Panel (Add or remove programs -> Hybridizer Essentials)
  • If it fails, download and run this Microsoft helper
  • Ensure Hybridizer service is properly removed. Run (as administrator, sc delete “Altimesh Hybridizer Status”
  • Delete the “%PROGRAMFILES%\Altimesh\Hybridizer Essentials” directory
  • Delete the extensions directories: “[VISUAL STUDIO INSTALL PATH]\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Altimesh”
  • Run “devenv /updateconfiguration” from your visual studio command prompt

Hybridizer Essentials For Linux – Beta

With version 1.1.6151.9352 comes a beta version of Hybridizer Essentials for Linux.

You can download the package from our github.

Prerequisites:

  • Tested on Ubuntu 16.04 – should work on other debian-based systems
  • Install a version of CUDA (starting at 8.0 – 9.0, 9.1 and 9.2 supported)
  • Install Mono (version 5.8.0.108 or later)

Installation:

  • Intall deb package #> sudo dpkg -i hybridizer-essentials-amd64-.deb
  • Package will install in /opt/altimesh/hybridizer-essentials

Request a license:

  • Run /opt/altimesh/hybridizer-essentials/bin/RequestLicense.exe and follow the instructions.
  • The license key for your machine will be sent to you by email to the address you are invited to provide.
  • Edit a .hybridizerrc configuration in your home directory and paste the license after the hostname and column. Here is an example:
    MyMachineHostName: yTfgNaoGHDZYpP7t0+ECTLeaUuNr<...>lPg==