From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 9 14:25:26 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A2011065670 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 14:25:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F9F88FC15 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 14:25:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S60kw-0005S8-SK for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:25:18 +0100 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:25:18 +0100 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:25:18 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:25:08 +0100 Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <4F59EB20.3060500@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigD76DF82DFA64430C5A7227C7" X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120213 Thunderbird/10.0 In-Reply-To: <4F59EB20.3060500@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenCL backend for LLVM X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:25:26 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigD76DF82DFA64430C5A7227C7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 09/03/2012 12:36, O. Hartmann wrote: > Sorry if you feel boring by those messages, but soem of us still get we= t > eyes when it comes to OpenCL and LLVm (LLVM is supposed to become soon > the backend compiler in FreeBSD, as I understand). On PHORONIX I read > this message days ago: >=20 > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=3Dnews_item&px=3DMTA2NzM >=20 > I think this is promising - in a way. Maybe some compiler specialists > will have merci (as well as nVidia and AMD) and present soemday in the > future OpenCL-based GPGPU capabilities for HPC on FreeBSD. AFAIK this would only work if the GPU vendors release GPGPU drivers which can be used with FreeBSD. The compiler part is only a minor one. --------------enigD76DF82DFA64430C5A7227C7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk9aEsQACgkQldnAQVacBch2yACeOH0oZjGgFcO+cOpqY8cu3OBP d14AnjtaOzesxeaXPEl1v8aoi7UiDymS =Hkw0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigD76DF82DFA64430C5A7227C7--