Re: NEWS: NVIDIA Open-Sources Its CUDA Compiler
Ivan Klymenko <[email protected]>
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В Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:02:03 +0100 "O. Hartmann" <[email protected]> пишет: > Just read this on > > phoronix.com > > Is this finally a chance to get GPGPU on FreeBSD natively supported? > > nVidia has a binary driver, supporting well their higher end graphics > cards on FreeBSD 64bit natively. > > I do not understand much about the compiler itself, it's "nvcc" as far > as I know, and it is also doing well OpenCL (with some serious bugs we > revealed). > > What would be needed to bring FreeBSd finally back to the HPC scenario > with being capable of dealing natively with GPGPU stuff on nVidia > graphics cards? There are libraries installed by the driver or the > SDK. With a OpenSource compiler it should also be possible for nVidia, > assumed the compiler works with freeBSD natively, to provide OpenCL > stuff as well as CUDA stuff. > Please correct me and destroy me "dreams" having FreeBSD in my lab > working on GPUs ... > > The decission sounds like some pitfall in a contract. Is nVidia > dropping CUDA in favour of OpenCL or is the CUDA compiler only a tiny > piece of the whole thing that could be easily considered open source > without changing the "great restricted Linux-only" picture? > > Maybe LLVM, now part of FreeBSD's backbone, is capable of taking > advantage of the opening of the CUDA compiler so we will see a > combination of CLANG/OpenCL/CUDA soon on FreeBSD introduced by LLVM? > > Well, well, this is awesome ... ;-) > > Oliver > Perhaps it will interest yous http://runtime.bordeaux.inria.fr/StarPU/ Just tried it - excellent build from source code in FreeBSD CURRENT. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"