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Date:      Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:25:08 +0100
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OpenCL backend for LLVM
Message-ID:  <jjd3s4$omg$1@dough.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <4F59EB20.3060500@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
References:  <4F59EB20.3060500@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>

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On 09/03/2012 12:36, O. Hartmann wrote:
> Sorry if you feel boring by those messages, but soem of us still get we=
t
> eyes when it comes to OpenCL and LLVm (LLVM is supposed to become soon
> the backend compiler in FreeBSD, as I understand). On PHORONIX I read
> this message days ago:
>=20
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=3Dnews_item&px=3DMTA2NzM
>=20
> I think this is promising - in a way. Maybe some compiler specialists
> will have merci (as well as nVidia and AMD) and present soemday in the
> future OpenCL-based GPGPU capabilities for HPC on FreeBSD.

AFAIK this would only work if the GPU vendors release GPGPU drivers
which can be used with FreeBSD. The compiler part is only a minor one.


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