From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 1 15:41:41 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 356651065670; Sun, 1 Apr 2012 15:41:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de) Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de [130.133.4.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDD238FC08; Sun, 1 Apr 2012 15:41:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69]) by outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69) with esmtp (envelope-from ) id <1SEMuM-0006VC-9d>; Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:41:34 +0200 Received: from e178035008.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.35.8] helo=thor.walstatt.dyndns.org) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69) with esmtpsa (envelope-from ) id <1SEMuM-000479-4J>; Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:41:34 +0200 Message-ID: <4F787727.1040209@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:41:27 +0200 From: "O. Hartmann" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:10.0.3) Gecko/20120314 Thunderbird/10.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ivan Klymenko References: <4EE938FB.7010107@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20120329212322.20605a7b@nonamehost.> In-Reply-To: <20120329212322.20605a7b@nonamehost.> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig1AC2394BE9801AFAB81D58CA" X-Originating-IP: 85.178.35.8 Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Current FreeBSD Subject: Re: NEWS: NVIDIA Open-Sources Its CUDA Compiler 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: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:41:41 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig1AC2394BE9801AFAB81D58CA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am 03/29/12 20:23, schrieb Ivan Klymenko: > =D0=92 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:02:03 +0100 > "O. Hartmann" =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1= =82: >=20 >> 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 >> >=20 > Perhaps it will interest yous http://runtime.bordeaux.inria.fr/StarPU/ > Just tried it - excellent build from source code in FreeBSD CURRENT. Thanks. This seems promising. Regards, Oliver --------------enig1AC2394BE9801AFAB81D58CA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPeHctAAoJEOgBcD7A/5N8WlEH/0G729hbG29fhzJAGCL5Vdln T5yb3H3vTwZiUmY7F1MnGd1y994Lz+faK66QDG33VidghKC6nU2tPYKgCK9LJ2jT 5vT7pVi3H9K/l6hRq2DeVYonYu3SMu3GU2vAsJxbvAOeAOAmGalZzXNYvkQ8VLIX H8VWIGP6T6VfAQSCZo+v5T7TbPrk1J1mG5AVVAIcMl3HhqwDnHp1+PQ+K4zH8L2w OMOVoVHQuGBzQWpj1PPTa1+PdlnXWKM436yozuOB9a8HgilakPKrtdi94J7Ffgrb gK2R+f7cLbvNWpaCvHeuYctZxUjYPr1IvOJPTbo8GbkzK9dqoJJV+WdJcNd0MdQ= =8VRF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig1AC2394BE9801AFAB81D58CA--