Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:18:35 +0200 From: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Ivan Klymenko <fidaj@ukr.net>, emorras@xroff.net, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD, GPGPU and OpenCL/CUDA Message-ID: <201008161618.35076.pieter@degoeje.nl> In-Reply-To: <20100816134713.66411ai1w435q5wh@webmail.xroff.net> References: <4C666786.6000205@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20100816141324.7de6d7b4@ukr.net> <20100816134713.66411ai1w435q5wh@webmail.xroff.net>
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On Monday 16 August 2010 15:47:13 emorras@xroff.net wrote: > Ivan Klymenko <fidaj@ukr.net> escribi=C3=B3: > > =D0=92 Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:53:10 +0200 > > "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0= =B5=D1=82: > >=20 > > I think that OpenCL can be activated in FreeBSD, if you add the > > necessary extensions for clang/llvm ... > > http://clang.llvm.org/docs/LanguageExtensions.html#vectors >=20 > Yes, you can compile OpenCL but you can't execute the resulting app. >=20 > > and a few links on the topic ... > > http://www.khronos.org/message_boards/viewtopic.php?f=3D36&t=3D2314 > > http://llvm.org/Users.html > >=20 > > Am I right? >=20 > Yes, but again, freebsd has not nvidia/ati drivers that allows it. > There were some improvements in 8.0 that allow use the new nvidia > drivers, but for now there's no opencl/cuda for us. >=20 > L I think it might be worthwhile to contact nVidia directly about this. To ra= ise=20 awareness that there are people using FreeBSD for HPC and that they very mu= ch=20 would like to see OpenCL/CUDA supported. =2D Pieter
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