Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:19:19 +0200 From: "K. Macy" <kmacy@freebsd.org> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: PHORONIX: OpenCL, GLSL Back-End For LLVM May Soon Open Up Message-ID: <CAHM0Q_Nth3Ty_wrHZE77Mny00x_zGCWYjyO_=RBeCSyx%2Bz%2Bovw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmomH7ihaxUSa-sMy_ZgQBsXt_4qouxK_Oo6QO_TAdev44Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <4E5B663F.5080304@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <CAJ-VmomH7ihaxUSa-sMy_ZgQBsXt_4qouxK_Oo6QO_TAdev44Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi, > > http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=38242 Post 18 > > This indicates the driver supports CUDA somehow. What's missing is a > FreeBSD runtime. > > Can someone please do some legwork with this and see if it's possible > to bring the Linux CUDA SDK up in the linuxulator? Just to underscore this. There are a number of us that can contribute to making this happen. However, it is not clear what the missing pieces are. Cheers > Adrian > > On 29 August 2011 18:13, Hartmann, O. <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: >> Hello out there. >> Just read this a day ago at Phoronix: >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTg0MQ >> >> I've also read that there is work done on the PTX assembly backend in LLVM >> for generation code for nVidia GPUs. >> I'm still grasping for the silky fathem having GPGPU on FreeBSD anyway like >> CUDA or OpenCL as the Linux and Windows >> fellows already have as well as the guys from OS X. >> >> Since nVidia offers 64bit ready BLOBs for their nice GPUs, I still hope that >> with LLVM, and maybe a proper OpenCL frontend like >> CLANG, FreeBSD users will have the chance to execute OpenCL code on a GPU. >> We use this stuff in science for now (and its done >> exclusiveley on Linux so far, since we use the CUDA SDK to generate OpenCL >> 1.1 code executed on TESLA and GTX570 graphics >> boards which give us impressive performance for our astrodynamical modelling >> ...). >> >> Sorry, if someone feels bothered by my repetitive bringing up this subject >> ... I still does not have lost all hope for FreeBSD. >> >> oh >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-performance-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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