Re: GPU programming?

Sorry, I guess I was not clear on what you were asking. Maybe OpenCL (from
Kronos/OpenGL folks) is helpful. Good luck.

https://www.freshports.org/devel/opencl/

Cheers,
Brett

On Sun, Feb 4, 2024 at 2:51 PM Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
wrote:

> See the second paragraph of my initial post.  AMD provides
> ROCm and Nvidia supplies CUDA.  These appear to be available
> for Windows and Linux.  Are there any software/hardware drivers
> required to actually accomplish the offloading?
>
> --
> steve
>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 04, 2024 at 02:16:05PM -0600, B. E. wrote:
> > 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
> > >
> > >
>
> --
> Steve
>
>