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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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