NVIDIA Releases Source To CUDA Compiler

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @03:58AM from the not-quite-there-yet dept.

An anonymous reader writes "NVIDIA has announced they have 'open-sourced' their new CUDA compiler so that their GPGPU platform can be brought to new architectures. NVIDIA's CUDA compiler is based upon LLVM. At the moment though they seem to be restricting the source code's access to 'qualified' individuals.' The official press release implies wider access to the source will happen later. It so happens that a few days ago AMD opened their OpenCL backend and added initial support to the Free Software r600 driver.

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Bitcoin by DriedClexler · 2011-12-14 05:26 · Score: -1, Offtopic

But the question everyone wants to know is, will this allow programmers to write even better software for Bitcoin miners using AMD GPUs?
(By "everyone", I mean the community of Bitcoin minors.)

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