FreeBSD, GPGPU and OpenCL/CUDA

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Ivan Klymenko <fidaj at ukr.net> escribió:

> В Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:53:10 +0200
> "O. Hartmann" <ohartman at mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> пишет:
>
> I think that OpenCL can be activated in FreeBSD, if you add the
> necessary extensions for clang/llvm ...
> http://clang.llvm.org/docs/LanguageExtensions.html#vectors
>

Yes, you can compile OpenCL but you can't execute the resulting app.

> and a few links on the topic ...
> http://www.khronos.org/message_boards/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=2314
> http://llvm.org/Users.html
>
> Am I right?

Yes, but again, freebsd has not nvidia/ati drivers that allows it.  
There were some improvements in 8.0 that allow use the new nvidia  
drivers, but for now there's no opencl/cuda for us.

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