Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:31:57 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: "freebsd-performance@freebsd.org" <freebsd-performance@freebsd.org> Subject: LLVM/CLANG and AMD GPU support, FreeBSD again excluded? Message-ID: <4CFD0FFD.7000405@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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I'm still hoping that FreeBSD could get back into it's shiny domain being a highly reliable and performant Berkeley UNIX like OS, so for my scientific purposes I'm still looking and watching what's going on. I found on this slide show a talk, given by some AMD fellow, about an OpenCL compiler: http://llvm.org/devmtg/2010-11/ (go down to the movies/slides and watch out for: AMD OpenCL Compiler - Using LLVM to produce a cross-platform heterogeneous compiler tool chain and enjoy). In this talk, only OS X, Windows and Linux are explicitely mentioned. Is there no interest in supporting the *BSD, preferably FreeBSD? As far as I know, the essential backend of this chain will be the AMD graphics card driver with its CAL compiler generating the binary code. Yes, I know, bringing up the 'FreeBSD and HPC / GPGPU-issue' is naiv and maybe boring, but hope is something that can be very persistent ... Regards, Oliver
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