From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 16 10:31:11 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 798231065698 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:31:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirj.bris.ac.uk (dirj.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32D2A8FC1F for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:31:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ncsc.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.41]) by dirj.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OkwyB-0006lb-3B; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:31:07 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by ncsc.bris.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1OkwyA-000779-V0; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:31:06 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o7GAV6CJ030994; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:31:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id o7GAV6ti030993; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:31:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:31:06 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: "O. Hartmann" Message-ID: <20100816103106.GA18363@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <4C666786.6000205@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C666786.6000205@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD, GPGPU and OpenCL/CUDA X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:31:11 -0000 On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:53:10AM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: > First, and this > hasn't changed since the last 15 years, FreeBSD lack in support of > professional Compiler vendors. I feel your pain. I'd say that at present FBSD cannot be used as HPC platform. Even if some things are possible to achive via linux-base, why bother? I think the real question is: What are the goals of the FreeBSD project? Or, in other words, for which tasks FBSD is preferable to linux? It seems the answer is something about secure network server. Definitely not HPC.. unfortunately. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423