The devil is in the details. Nobody really knows yet, as they have only made the announcement. I don't think you can actually get ahold of anything yet. And they haven't indicated what licenese it is to be released under.
-Reuben On Thursday, December 15, 2011 12:47:32 AM Davis Sorenson wrote: > To quote from the linked article: > "NVIDIA today announced that *it will provide the source code* for the new > NVIDIA® CUDA® LLVM-based compiler *to academic researchers and > software-tool vendors*, enabling them to more easily add GPU support for > more programming languages and support CUDA applications on alternative > processor architectures." > > While It does mention opening (In the title) and source code, the wording > is a bit strange. Do they mean that it will be "Shared-source" like some > Microsoft products, or do they mean that it will be under an open-source > license? Just thought I would point this out. Either way this is good news, > but if it's real open-source it's much better news. > > Davis > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Reuben Martin <reube...@gmail.com> wrote: > > With all the headaches of trying to make Cycles work properly with > > OpenCL, I > > thought it was interesting that Nvidia has now open sourced with CUDA > > compiler > > as well as the documentation of the intermediate representation. > > > > > > http://pressroom.nvidia.com/easyir/customrel.do?easyirid=A0D622CE9F579F0 > > 9&version=live&releasejsp=release_157&xhtml=true&prid=831864 > > > > In theory, this could mean that CUDA could eventually be ported to > > non-nvidia > > architectures. > > > > > > > > -Reuben _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers