From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 30 21:22:20 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 3BE991065675; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:22:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de) Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de [130.133.4.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB24D8FC12; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:22:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69]) by outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69) with esmtp (envelope-from ) id <1QyVlB-0003pu-Ue>; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:22:18 +0200 Received: from e178029245.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.29.245] helo=thor.walstatt.dyndns.org) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69) with esmtpsa (envelope-from ) id <1QyVlB-0004VF-Rq>; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:22:17 +0200 Message-ID: <4E5D5489.4070408@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:22:17 +0200 From: "Hartmann, O." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110825 Thunderbird/6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: giffunip@tutopia.com References: <1314733660.22981.YahooMailClassic@web113503.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1314733660.22981.YahooMailClassic@web113503.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Originating-IP: 85.178.29.245 Cc: "freebsd-performance@freebsd.org" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, "b. f." 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: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:22:20 -0000 On 08/30/11 21:47, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > FWIW; > > Christopher Bergström and Pathscale delivered the EKOPath > Compiler Suite, but no one followed up: > > (From the WantedPorts Wiki) > https://github.com/pathscale/path64-suite > > There has been very low interest in the FreeBSD port, > and unfortunately this is a bad signal that we give to > companies that want to contribute :(. > > Pedro. > _______________________________________________ > 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" Well, that's a pitty and I regret that there is so few interest in this. I had several emails flipping around between C. Bergström and myself since I wanted to test the compiler suite for some software I needed for my thesis, but I never got a copy. Maybe the response was so incredible low he decided not to respond anymore. Since I think the PathScale compiler, even if commercial, would be a breakthrough, since it uses openMP similar HMPP syntax and embedded #pragmas, it would be a tremendous benefit for developers just shifting their code nearly unchanged simply by adjusting their OpenMP #pragma omp towards #pragma hmpp. But the lack of response and non-shown interests shows a undeobtly signal that freeBSD seems to be dead for the HPC community and this could be also an indication for the lack of CUDA support by nVidia, Why performing efforts if no one cares? A great chance seems to have passed by ... Well, the FreeBSD team must leran it the hard way ...