Been a while since I heard from CAPS, the company that makes the interesting hybrid development IDE for GPU code, but they’ve just released a new announcement of a new version that adds support for the OpenCL libraries and new Fermi cards. But that’s not all:
The CUDA back-end generator has been enhanced with Fermi capabilities and this release brings support for more native compilers with Intel ifort/icc, GNU gcc/gfortran and PGI pgcc/pgfort compilers, enabling developers to freely use their favorite compiler with HMPP 2.3.
via Dr Dobbs – OpenCL Code Generator Announced.
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CAPS Entreprise was at sc09 announcing the latest version of their HMPP compiler toolsuite. If you are not familiar with their product, it is a toolsuite to aid in hybrid GPU/CPU software development. They were nice enough to invite us for a talk and give us a demonstration of their product.
At the heart of HMPP, it is an extension to existing compiler to help with GPU compute code. With the wide variety of compilers (Microsoft, PGI, GNU, Intel), IDE’s (Visual Studio, Eclipse, Emacs) and GPU Languages (CUDA, OpenCL, Streams, Brook) it can be daunting to develop applications that efficiently works across the wide variety of environments.. HMPP aims to make this all much simpler by allowing you to insert simple directives into your code indicating data structures and routines to accelerate.
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