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NVIDIA Releases Source To CUDA Compiler

Posted by Unknown on 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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  1. No they haven't by PatDev · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Title is correct. From TFA, the summary appears wrong. It seems they are not open sourcing anything. To quote TFA

    On December 13th, NVIDIA announced that it will open up the CUDA platform by releasing source code for the CUDA Compiler.

    They will let you look at the code, and they might let you send patches back to them. Nowhere I can find did NVIDIA promise anything along the lines of an open license, or even any license at all. This is more like a Microsoft shared-source deal, where you can look, but no rights or privileges are transferred to you.

    That said, it would still be cool to see.