Re: OpenACC

[MAHDI LOTFI <mahdiscience2012@gmail.com>]

Thanks for your answer.

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 6:00 PM Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On 2020-03-26T12:14:53+0430, MAHDI LOTFI via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
> > I am a researcher from Jam Petrochemical company I want to use OpenACC
> with
> > GCC compiler. I have a question about your compiler.
>
> Thanks for your interest in this.
>
> > Does your compiler support OpenACC in windows OS or not?
>
> As far as I'm aware, we so far haven't seen any reports of people
> building GCC with code offloading support for Windows hosts.  That's the
> important aspect here: the infrastructure required to launch compute
> kernels on AMD/Nvidia/other GPUs, etc., via CUDA Driver library, etc.
> It's likely that a bit of development effort for GCC, and nvptx-tools
> will be required, but neither have we so far been contracted to work on
> that, nor has any volunteer contributed the respective code changes.
>
> So, the answer it: yes, it can be supported, but there is no evidence
> that it already works; will require some development effort.
>
>
> Grüße
>  Thomas
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Mahdi Lotfi
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