Re: New Linux accelerators discussion list [was: Re: Fostering linux community collaboration on hardware accelerators]

2017-10-17 Thread Jonathan Cameron
+ linux-accelerat...@lists.ozlabs.org Seems sensible to have this email actually go to the new list so at least it appears in the archive. Sorry all, I should have thought of this before pressing send, Jonathan On Tue, 17 Oct 2017 13:48:10 +0100 Jonathan Cameron

Re: New Linux accelerators discussion list [was: Re: Fostering linux community collaboration on hardware accelerators]

2017-10-17 Thread Jonathan Cameron
On Tue, 17 Oct 2017 11:00:40 +1100 Andrew Donnellan wrote: > On 17/10/17 01:07, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > > > > > >>> So as ever with a linux community focusing on a particular topic, the > >>> obvious solution is a mailing list. There are a number of options on

Re: Fostering linux community collaboration on hardware accelerators

2017-10-16 Thread Jonathan Cameron
> > So as ever with a linux community focusing on a particular topic, the > > obvious solution is a mailing list. There are a number of options on how > > do this. > > > > 1) Ask one of the industry bodies to host? Who? > > > > 2) Put together a compelling argument for

Re: Fostering linux community collaboration on hardware accelerators

2017-10-12 Thread Douglas Miller
On 10/12/2017 10:48 AM, Francois Ozog wrote: On 12 October 2017 at 16:57, Jonathan Cameron wrote: On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 08:31:36 -0500 Douglas Miller wrote: Not sure if you're already plugged-in to this, but the OpenMP group is (has

Re: Fostering linux community collaboration on hardware accelerators

2017-10-12 Thread Francois Ozog
On 12 October 2017 at 16:57, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 08:31:36 -0500 > Douglas Miller wrote: > >> Not sure if you're already plugged-in to this, but the OpenMP group is >> (has been) working on Accelerator support. >>

Re: Fostering linux community collaboration on hardware accelerators

2017-10-12 Thread Douglas Miller
Not sure if you're already plugged-in to this, but the OpenMP group is (has been) working on Accelerator support. http://www.openmp.org/updates/openmp-accelerator-support-gpus/ Maybe you are talking about a different aspect of accelerator support, but it seems prudent to involve OpenMP as

Re: Fostering linux community collaboration on hardware accelerators

2017-10-11 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 10/10/17 22:28, Jonathan Cameron wrote: Hi All, Please forward this email to anyone you think may be interested. Have forwarded this to a number of relevant IBMers. On behalf of Huawei, I am looking into options to foster a wider community around the various ongoing projects related to

Re: Fostering linux community collaboration on hardware accelerators

2017-10-11 Thread Jonathan Cameron
On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 11:51:49 -0400 Sandy Harris wrote: > I shortened the cc list radically. If the discussion continues, it may > be a good idea to add people back. I added John Gilmore since I cite > one of his posts below. Fair enough - I have cc'd back in our internal

Re: Fostering linux community collaboration on hardware accelerators

2017-10-11 Thread Sandy Harris
I shortened the cc list radically. If the discussion continues, it may be a good idea to add people back. I added John Gilmore since I cite one of his posts below. Jonathan Cameron wrote: > On behalf of Huawei, I am looking into options to foster a wider community >

Re: Fostering linux community collaboration on hardware accelerators

2017-10-11 Thread Jonathan Cameron
On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 16:55:06 +0200 Francois Ozog wrote: > Hi, Hi Francois, Firstly, to anyone seeing this on the mailing lists, there was an attachment so it presumably bounced. > > I am really happy you started this thread. I think we need to have Grant > Likely

Fostering linux community collaboration on hardware accelerators

2017-10-10 Thread Jonathan Cameron
Hi All, Please forward this email to anyone you think may be interested. On behalf of Huawei, I am looking into options to foster a wider community around the various ongoing projects related to Accelerator support within Linux. The particular area of interest to Huawei is that of harnessing