Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2024 12:51:27 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: "B. E." <estrabd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPU programming? Message-ID: <Zb_4z5IKLl5yuXTJ@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <CALSf6fRJA861r7XF=fOWOdfc7-AzGePa6r5P=bBA9-x-36LB4Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <Zb_fTkeKTYSxpfKc@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <CALSf6fRJA861r7XF=fOWOdfc7-AzGePa6r5P=bBA9-x-36LB4Q@mail.gmail.com>
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See the second paragraph of my initial post. AMD provides ROCm and Nvidia supplies CUDA. These appear to be available for Windows and Linux. Are there any software/hardware drivers required to actually accomplish the offloading? -- steve On Sun, Feb 04, 2024 at 02:16:05PM -0600, B. E. wrote: > gcc (and gfortran) has supported OpenMP for a very long time via their GOMP > (pthreads underneath), not sure about LLVM based support or offloading (via > the latest supported OpenMP specification) to accelerators on FreeBSD per > se. What are you looking for in terms of OS support? > > Cheers, > Brett > > On Sun, Feb 4, 2024 at 1:02 PM Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> > wrote: > > > Is anyone aware of work towards GPU programming on FreeBSD? > > > > Here, I am not interested in using a GPU while playing a > > video game or rendering graphics on a video monitor. I'm > > interested in offloading single and double precision > > floating-point computations to a GPU via OpenACC or OpenMP > > (ala HPC). > > > > Although using a high-end AMD Instinct MI300 would be great, > > I'm looking for something a bit more affordable such as an > > AMD RX 6700 XT. AFAICT, this may require either porting > > AMD ROCm software to FreeBSD or running it under the > > linuxlator. > > > > https://www.amd.com/en/products/software/rocm.html > > > > -- > > Steve > > > > -- Steve
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