PHORONIX: OpenCL, GLSL Back-End For LLVM May Soon Open Up

[K. Macy]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=38242 Post 18
>
> This indicates the driver supports CUDA somehow. What's missing is a
> FreeBSD runtime.
>
> Can someone please do some legwork with this and see if it's possible
> to bring the Linux CUDA SDK up in the linuxulator?


Just to underscore this. There are a number of us that can contribute
to making this happen. However, it is not clear what the missing
pieces are.

Cheers

> Adrian
>
> On 29 August 2011 18:13, Hartmann, O. <ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>> Hello out there.
>> Just read this a day ago at Phoronix:
>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTg0MQ
>>
>> I've also read that there is work done on the PTX assembly backend in LLVM
>> for generation code for nVidia GPUs.
>> I'm still grasping for the silky fathem having GPGPU on FreeBSD anyway like
>> CUDA or OpenCL as the Linux and Windows
>> fellows already have as well as the guys from OS X.
>>
>> Since nVidia offers 64bit ready BLOBs for their nice GPUs, I still hope that
>> with LLVM, and maybe a proper OpenCL frontend like
>> CLANG, FreeBSD users will have the chance to execute OpenCL code on a GPU.
>> We use this stuff in science for now (and its done
>> exclusiveley on Linux so far, since we use the CUDA SDK to generate OpenCL
>> 1.1 code executed on TESLA and GTX570 graphics
>> boards which give us impressive performance for our astrodynamical modelling
>> ...).
>>
>> Sorry, if someone feels bothered by my repetitive bringing up this subject
>> ... I still does not have lost all hope for FreeBSD.
>>
>> oh
>>
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