From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 29 12:47:11 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 9E165106566B; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:47:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kmacybsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vx0-f182.google.com (mail-vx0-f182.google.com [209.85.220.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49FF48FC08; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:47:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vxh11 with SMTP id 11so5408545vxh.13 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:47:10 -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=3vDv9Z8k89tj0h3BGmUy6xp6UIWPFhsDQrxm5KNRunQ=; b=m+hUrcXIpAfbpn/FR7UtVroikcCsSTlrTxWhE9cDVKH3BUQN1J5vIq9xsGC0lNzcAy SrF/I/lCkF7ErqlVh1ld/jPRdGJCU2qYoI84zufD81FpKPcJnIfPjMGSYkItNPMSZXnG TxU0aRDiFBQ4MAnpKXx/Fagyw5I0XJZh82l2k= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.107.131 with SMTP id b3mr1718230vcp.206.1314620359575; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:19:19 -0700 (PDT) Sender: kmacybsd@gmail.com Received: by 10.52.186.163 with HTTP; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:19:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4E5B663F.5080304@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:19:19 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: bgRda4qZj5Ej64RiYhw-MvC8oAk Message-ID: From: "K. Macy" To: Adrian Chadd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: 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 12:47:11 -0000 On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > 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? Just to underscore this. There are a number of us that can contribute to making this happen. However, it is not clear what the missing pieces are. Cheers > 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" >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >