----- "Florent Calvayrac-Castaing" <florent.calvay...@univ-lemans.fr> wrote:
> By the way, has anyone on the list any idea on > the prospects of Apple's OpenCL ? I think we need something that is hardware independent. If OpenCL can deliver that (and Apple obviously believe it can otherwise they'd not have it in Snow Leopard) then I think that's going to be great. The big question for me is where are the implementations going to come from ? My understanding is that Snow Leopard will use the LLVM compiler for it [1], and nVidia will ship support it in their CUDA SDK. AMD have already nailed their colours to the mast and based on past behaviour it might be reasonable to expect that they'll use GCC as their base (which would be nice!). As for Intel, well I guess it'll be in their compiler, though I asked about Larabee and OpenCL on the Intel stand at SC and was told "we don't have anyone here who knows about it, we'll get someone to call you" (nothing yet). cheers, Chris [1] - Given that LLVM is BSD licensed it is unclear whether Apples modifications to implement it will be public or not. -- Christopher Samuel - (03) 9925 4751 - Systems Manager The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing P.O. Box 201, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia VPAC is a not-for-profit Registered Research Agency _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
