LLVM/CLANG and several OpenCL projects: FreeBSD or any *BSD developer involved?

[Ivan Voras]

On 21/10/2011 08:30, Hartmann, O. wrote:
> As I'm not a developer, but for scientific purposes highly interested in
> using GPUs, the only way of doing HPC computing at the moment is with
> nVidias TESLA/nVidia consumer graphics cards and LINUX, since on Linux
> one willing to use the GPU has the necessary libraries, driver and
> compilers.

Drivers are still a big problem on FreeBSD. AFAIK neither NVIDIA nor ATI
supply GPGPU-enabled drivers for FreeBSD. If this problem were solved, I
think that most of other utilities would mostly "just work" using
standard interfaces like OpenCL.


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