Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:36:14 +0000 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Christopher_Bergstr=F6m?= <cbergstrom@pathscale.com> Subject: Re: PHORONIX: OpenCL, GLSL Back-End For LLVM May Soon Open Up Message-ID: <CAGFTUwPCytBxopt_Rqkg2jsRVpN-hFYDpeWW7WyPvB6ORVf8=A@mail.gmail.com>
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> By the beginning of this year Pathscale introduced a kind of compiler > capable of HMPP, a very smart model > like OpenMP. This compiler seems not to be ready by now and I never got > access to a beta version to test > whether it was capable of compiling CUDA ready code. As far as I know, > HMPP is also an "open" standard. > > Well, conclusively, there seems no real solution to be present for > FreeBSD by now (as I mentioned, the > Linuxulator is no real alternative due to its 32bit limitations). Christopher Bergstr=F6m of PathScale offered to serve as an advocate for release of portions of PathScale's code so that it could be used in FreeBSD [1]. Did anyone take him up on it? I'd think that negotiations of this sort would be of interest to the FreeBSD Foundation and other parties. [1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2011-June/231181.h= tml
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