NVIDIA Releases Source To CUDA Compiler 89
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.
any word on a license? (Score:4, Insightful)
Despite the phrase "open-source", there seems to be a distinct lack of information about whether this is a "source is now available for inspection" type release, or actually under an open-source license, and if so, which one.
Re:GPU drivers (Score:4, Insightful)
Do you know something we don't? Is there some defiency in our understanding of patents? "A patent [wikipedia.org] ... consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention" (emphasis added).