LLVM to get massive GPU support with Fortran

[Andrew Pinski]

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:
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>> FYI, this posting has a bit more detail on the actual implementation...
>>
>> http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2015-November/092438.html
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>
> 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.

Thanks,
Andrew

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