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Re: LLVM to get massive GPU support with Fortran
- From: Jack Howarth <howarth dot at dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- To: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot org>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 17:32:41 -0500
- Subject: Re: LLVM to get massive GPU support with Fortran
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On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Toon Moene <toon@moene.org> wrote:
>> On 11/16/2015 11:02 PM, Jack Howarth wrote:
>>
>>> FYI, this posting has a bit more detail on the actual implementation...
>>>
>>> http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2015-November/092438.html
>>
>>
>> That surely helps - thanks.
>
>
> Basically NVIDIA bought PGI and now is open source their fortran
> front-end. Nothing magical really.
> Basically NVIDIA is trying to have the "community" do more of their
> development for them.
> This is an anti-open/free source way of doing things.
>
Well, if Nvidia/PGI wanted to shift their fortran compiler to use llvm
for its GPU support, they were bound to open source it. The whole
model for llvm is based on vendors wanting to work within the open
source tree because of the pain involved in maintaining independent
forks based on llvm (due to the heavy upstream churn).
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>
>>
>>
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