Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:41:10 +0200 From: Eduardo Morras <nec556@retena.com> To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Current FreeBSD <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: NEWS: NVIDIA Open-Sources Its CUDA Compiler Message-ID: <4EFDA806014E63F9@> (added by postmaster@resmaa14.ono.com)
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At 20:23 29/03/2012, you wrote: >=D0=92 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:02:03 +0100 >"O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82: > > > 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 > > > >Perhaps it will interest yous http://runtime.bordeaux.inria.fr/StarPU/ >Just tried it - excellent build from source code in FreeBSD CURRENT. There's an initial port of x10-lang=20 http://x10-lang.org/ It's a language developed by=20 IBM that output to C++ or Java source code when=20 compiled with distributed/cluster ala OpenMPI=20 included. Last version adds Cuda output inside c++ backend. =20
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