From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 29 12:12:55 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 841D7106566C for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:12:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f182.google.com (mail-gx0-f182.google.com [209.85.161.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FD868FC16 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:12:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk28 with SMTP id 28so5656571gxk.13 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:12:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=IMS5OLmDUb0RzpjxlzYCRSehSSqmY2/7YMYadqOQsTo=; b=WGvKo+UN9SXIlTZTWWGSz/nCAjk36qQt1uR0wJWJ7du7OD3T6sXTVpqT8D6TnzHtTZ 1DfKaZZ3zZqLr3/7pBJtbBZuedT46S1dzriNgP5YfyLckKZUyfdOXQrnedOWNYx5E6uK af4pDkoPVqAGl9J5vW07BcilyovfIgLsKQegM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.32.14 with SMTP id f14mr4735839ybf.201.1314619974196; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:12:54 -0700 (PDT) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.150.145.21 with HTTP; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:12:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E5B663F.5080304@zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <4E5B663F.5080304@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:12:54 +0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ZW680Ghpl2ym7Xd2Kw7sgDSM3T4 Message-ID: From: Adrian Chadd To: "Hartmann, O." Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: "freebsd-performance@freebsd.org" , FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: PHORONIX: OpenCL, GLSL Back-End For LLVM May Soon Open Up X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:12:55 -0000 Hi, http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=38242 Post 18 This indicates the driver supports CUDA somehow. What's missing is a FreeBSD runtime. Can someone please do some legwork with this and see if it's possible to bring the Linux CUDA SDK up in the linuxulator? Adrian On 29 August 2011 18:13, Hartmann, O. wrote: > Hello out there. > Just read this a day ago at Phoronix: > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTg0MQ > > I've also read that there is work done on the PTX assembly backend in LLVM > for generation code for nVidia GPUs. > I'm still grasping for the silky fathem having GPGPU on FreeBSD anyway like > CUDA or OpenCL as the Linux and Windows > fellows already have as well as the guys from OS X. > > Since nVidia offers 64bit ready BLOBs for their nice GPUs, I still hope that > with LLVM, and maybe a proper OpenCL frontend like > CLANG, FreeBSD users will have the chance to execute OpenCL code on a GPU. > We use this stuff in science for now (and its done > exclusiveley on Linux so far, since we use the CUDA SDK to generate OpenCL > 1.1 code executed on TESLA and GTX570 graphics > boards which give us impressive performance for our astrodynamical modelling > ...). > > Sorry, if someone feels bothered by my repetitive bringing up this subject > ... I still does not have lost all hope for FreeBSD. > > oh > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-performance-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >