From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 20 14:54:47 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 028D9106566B for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:54:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emorras@xroff.net) Received: from xroff.net (xroff.net [200.46.208.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2AE78FC08 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:54:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from maia.hub.org (unknown [200.46.204.243]) by xroff.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 017644FCD81; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:54:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from xroff.net ([200.46.208.231]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 99442-05; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:54:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from unknown (237.Red-80-58-252.staticIP.rima-tde.net [80.58.252.237]) by xroff.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 65D954FCD7D; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:54:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 127.0.0.1 (AVG SMTP 9.0.851 [271.1.1/3083]); Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:54:27 +0200 Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:54:27 +0200 From: Eduardo To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100820165427.000072f8@unknown> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4cvs1 (GTK+ 2.16.0; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: bf1783@gmail.com 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: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:54:47 -0000 Hi b. f. On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:24:16 +0000 "b. f." wrote: > ... >=20 > > MPI is typically dependent on the network not OpenMP. OpenMP 3.0 > > can be made more scalable if there's tasks built-into the kernel .... >=20 > http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/schedule/events/169.en.html >=20 > , and I'm sure they would be willing to discuss improvements. Reading documentation, thanks b. f. I'm already on freebsd-hackers list. Is that the correct list for this topic? >=20 > >> 2) HPC ready compiler.. (Sorry guys, but LLVM is just > >> not production ready for this task and is missing Fortran) > > >=20 > Not ready now, perhaps -- but development there is fairly rapid, and > the switch to llvm, if there is to be one, is still some time off. > However, later versions of gcc are in ports, there are some > discussions regarding the revival of the icc port, and there is work > underway to allow users to more easily use alternative compilers and > toolchains for the base system as well as for ports: >=20 > http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2010-01-2010-03.html#Out-of-Tre= e-Toolchain Not only compilers for Fortran or other languages but for new architetures, Cluster of SMP CPUs with GPU attached.=20 >=20 > > > >> 3) IB network drivers > > > >Don't know the status of Infiniband drivers, are there drivers? >=20 > There is a port of of the Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution > underway: >=20 > http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/projects/ofed/ >=20 > And there is: >=20 > http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/head/sys/contrib/rdma/ Oks, i didn't know that. Please note that i made that question, not "C. Bergstr=F6m" from >=20 > >> 4) Hardware vendor to deliver a complete solution + support > >> (iXsystems?) >=20 > Well, that's not up to us. All we can do is port more software and > encourage people to use it. And "we" includes "you". I want to be on that ship, and think that more than only porting software is needed, live-examples of use, modify the kernel to allow nvidia/ati (even intel) develop drivers and of course, marketing and bechmarking (aren't them the samething?) For now i'm going to port my hpc app to FreeBSD. >=20 > b. Thanks