[LLVMdev] PTX target for LLVM?

[Ralf Karrenberg]

Hey,

Chris Lattner schrieb:
> On Mar 26, 2010, at 11:28 PM, Puyan Lotfi wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>>
>> I am interested to know: are there are any LLVM targets in the works
>> for Nvidia's PTX ISA?
>>
>> Also if anyone knows about Ocelot (a project done by some students at
>> my school): it does the opposite of what I am trying to do (translates
>> PTX to LLVM  IR to run Cuda kernels on the CPU).
> 
> I don't know of any, but that would be a great project if the nvidia toolchain is sufficiently available for it to be useful to open source folks.

Helge Rhodin, a student at Saarland University, has already written a 
PTX backend for LLVM as part of his bachelor's thesis. We currently use 
it for a deferred shading system of a rasterizer.
The plan is to reintegrate it into the LLVM trunk, but we have not yet 
made any steps into this direction.

Best regards,
Ralf