Re: GPU programming?
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Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2024 20:16:05 UTC
gcc (and gfortran) has supported OpenMP for a very long time via their GOMP (pthreads underneath), not sure about LLVM based support or offloading (via the latest supported OpenMP specification) to accelerators on FreeBSD per se. What are you looking for in terms of OS support? Cheers, Brett On Sun, Feb 4, 2024 at 1:02 PM Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > Is anyone aware of work towards GPU programming on FreeBSD? > > Here, I am not interested in using a GPU while playing a > video game or rendering graphics on a video monitor. I'm > interested in offloading single and double precision > floating-point computations to a GPU via OpenACC or OpenMP > (ala HPC). > > Although using a high-end AMD Instinct MI300 would be great, > I'm looking for something a bit more affordable such as an > AMD RX 6700 XT. AFAICT, this may require either porting > AMD ROCm software to FreeBSD or running it under the > linuxlator. > > https://www.amd.com/en/products/software/rocm.html > > -- > Steve > >