At 12:36 09/03/2012, you wrote:
Sorry if you feel boring by those messages, but soem of us still get wet
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:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA2NzM
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.
I agree with you, it will allow to run some parts of llvm compiled
apps to run in gpu, perhaps even parts of FreeBSD. A fullpower driver
is the last piece of the puzzle.
Don't know who has to do the first step, FreeBSD who changes the
kernel to allow easier port of the linux drivers or nVidia/AMD begin
the port and tell us what must be changed to make it.
I still have hope that the important part HPC will become again an
option using FreeBSD as it was 10 years ago.
The part of my hpc app in FreeBSD is the scheduler and data
collector. The "real" hpc number crunching part runs on Linux with cuda code.
Regards,
Oliver
L
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