Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:23:22 +0300 From: Ivan Klymenko <fidaj@ukr.net> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Current FreeBSD <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: NEWS: NVIDIA Open-Sources Its CUDA Compiler Message-ID: <20120329212322.20605a7b@nonamehost.> In-Reply-To: <4EE938FB.7010107@zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <4EE938FB.7010107@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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=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 >=20 > phoronix.com >=20 > Is this finally a chance to get GPGPU on FreeBSD natively supported? >=20 > nVidia has a binary driver, supporting well their higher end graphics > cards on FreeBSD 64bit natively. >=20 > 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). >=20 > 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 ... >=20 > 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? >=20 > 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? >=20 > Well, well, this is awesome ... ;-) >=20 > Oliver >=20 Perhaps it will interest yous http://runtime.bordeaux.inria.fr/StarPU/ Just tried it - excellent build from source code in FreeBSD CURRENT.
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