From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 31 09:11:18 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 D94F2106564A; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:11:18 +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 9093C8FC0A; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:11:17 +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 <1QygpI-0007JA-DO>; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:11:16 +0200 Received: from e178023043.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.23.43] helo=thor.walstatt.dyndns.org) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69) with esmtpsa (envelope-from ) id <1QygpI-0007iR-Al>; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:11:16 +0200 Message-ID: <4E5DFAB4.4030308@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:11:16 +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: "K. Macy" References: <1314733660.22981.YahooMailClassic@web113503.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <4E5D5489.4070408@zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: 85.178.23.43 Cc: "freebsd-performance@freebsd.org" , giffunip@tutopia.com, "b. f." , freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:11:18 -0000 On 08/30/11 23:26, K. Macy wrote: >> 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 ... > I wouldn't read too much in to it. What was provided only fit a fairly > narrow niche. Nvidia won't build their libraries on freebsd until we > "prove the market" which is fairly hard to do when you have to jump > through hoops just to get it to run and need to have a linux > environment to build the apps. > > -Kip Isn't FreeBSD also a "niche"? oh