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An Open Source Compiler From CUDA To X86-Multicore

Posted by timothy on from the abstraction-gains-a-layer dept.

Gregory Diamos writes "An open source project, Ocelot, has recently released a just-in-time compiler for CUDA, allowing the same programs to be run on NVIDIA GPUs or x86 CPUs and providing an alternative to OpenCL. A description of the compiler was recently posted on the NVIDIA forums. The compiler works by translating GPU instructions to LLVM and then generating native code for any LLVM target. It has been validated against over 100 CUDA applications. All of the code is available under the New BSD license."

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  1. Re:Alternative? by mrsteveman1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wednesday December 23, @02:11PM

  2. I'm betting.. by RightSaidFred99 · · Score: 2, Funny

    NVidia isn't real happy about this. No Christmas cards for those guys! In fact the developers should expect some insipid, obvious, and unfunny cartoons will be drawn about them.

  3. Re:Alternative? by Score+Whore · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hard to say, but it must be easy since there are lots of mods that are, at the very least, a bit challenged. If you know what I mean.