Dear GCC Steering Committee, We are a forming company (StreamNovation Ltd.) from Hungary, and we would like to ask your attitude about our plans. We are intending to implement a plugin for GCC 4.5 which makes it possible to utilize the GPU (graphics processing unit) semi-automatically (later fully-automatically). We are planning to implement it as a free software according to GPL, but we would also like to sell it in a box, and get paid for personal support, guarantee and education.
The basic idea is to make the GPU kind of OpenMP (Open Multi-Processing is an application programming interface (API) that supports multi-platform shared memory multiprocessing programming in C, C++). The GCC user marks the loop, and GCC creates a heterogeneous binary code which runs the kernel on GPU, generated from the original source code. We expect huge attention for this field in the next few years. We think our plugin is in harmony with the GCC development mission statement. We are ready to follow any of your instructions according to GPL, source code publicity, and legal compatibility with GPU manufacturers' software. Please let us know the conventions we have to follow and do not hesitate to ask questions. Best regards, Ádám Rák StreamNovation Ltd. Práter u. 50/a. Budapest, H-1083 Hungary Phone: +36 20 9677 199 Email: adam....@streamnovation.com
