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Cc: Ivan Klymenko <fidaj@ukr.net>, emorras@xroff.net,
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD, GPGPU and OpenCL/CUDA
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On Monday 16 August 2010 15:47:13 emorras@xroff.net wrote:
> Ivan Klymenko <fidaj@ukr.net> escribi=C3=B3:
> > =D0=92 Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:53:10 +0200
> > "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=
=B5=D1=82:
> >=20
> > I think that OpenCL can be activated in FreeBSD, if you add the
> > necessary extensions for clang/llvm ...
> > http://clang.llvm.org/docs/LanguageExtensions.html#vectors
>=20
> Yes, you can compile OpenCL but you can't execute the resulting app.
>=20
> > and a few links on the topic ...
> > http://www.khronos.org/message_boards/viewtopic.php?f=3D36&t=3D2314
> > http://llvm.org/Users.html
> >=20
> > Am I right?
>=20
> Yes, but again, freebsd has not nvidia/ati drivers that allows it.
> There were some improvements in 8.0 that allow use the new nvidia
> drivers, but for now there's no opencl/cuda for us.
>=20
> L

I think it might be worthwhile to contact nVidia directly about this. To ra=
ise=20
awareness that there are people using FreeBSD for HPC and that they very mu=
ch=20
would like to see OpenCL/CUDA supported.

=2D Pieter