[LLVMdev] RFC: R600, a new backend for AMD GPUs

[Daniels, Marcus G]

On May 28, 2012, at 10:07 AM, Tom Stellard wrote:

>> 
>> Okay, so there is no way to use the backend to produce loadable compute
>> kernels for the proprietary drivers, or on Mac/windows?
>> 
> 
> Right, this is not currently possible.

fwiw..

Sometimes the bleeding edge features found only on Windows (e.g. zero copy) are interesting to evaluate.
But by in large, HPC folks refuse to even entertain the idea of booting nodes of a cluster to Windows.
An open source solution like this is very appealing for large-scale scientific workloads.

Marcus