From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 24 10:25:10 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD0731065670 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:25:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gofp-freebsd-performance@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 827238FC0C for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:25:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RIHiP-0000lk-Na for freebsd-performance@freebsd.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:25:09 +0200 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:25:09 +0200 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:25:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:21:32 +0200 Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <4EA1117C.1000509@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig456CE17199D236E5E28118F3" X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111004 Thunderbird/7.0.1 In-Reply-To: <4EA1117C.1000509@zedat.fu-berlin.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Subject: Re: LLVM/CLANG and several OpenCL projects: FreeBSD or any *BSD developer involved? X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:25:10 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig456CE17199D236E5E28118F3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 21/10/2011 08:30, Hartmann, O. wrote: > As I'm not a developer, but for scientific purposes highly interested i= n > using GPUs, the only way of doing HPC computing at the moment is with > nVidias TESLA/nVidia consumer graphics cards and LINUX, since on Linux > one willing to use the GPU has the necessary libraries, driver and > compilers. Drivers are still a big problem on FreeBSD. AFAIK neither NVIDIA nor ATI supply GPGPU-enabled drivers for FreeBSD. If this problem were solved, I think that most of other utilities would mostly "just work" using standard interfaces like OpenCL. --------------enig456CE17199D236E5E28118F3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk6lPCwACgkQldnAQVacBchzsACg+Ic4Zwzh9JTgv16iX13PXvDU D8cAoO5pL75GGqU4fxV2eEQIIZx3b++8 =vn+p -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig456CE17199D236E5E28118F3--