Re: NEWS: NVIDIA Open-Sources Its CUDA Compiler

From: O. Hartmann <ohartman_at_zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:41:27 +0200
Am 03/29/12 20:23, schrieb Ivan Klymenko:
> В Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:02:03 +0100
> "O. Hartmann" <ohartman_at_zedat.fu-berlin.de> пишет:
> 
>> 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.

Thanks. This seems promising.

Regards,
Oliver


Received on Sun Apr 01 2012 - 13:41:41 UTC

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