On The Heels Of An Impressive Launch

[phoronix]

Phoronix: On The Heels Of An Impressive Launch

Those that follow my Twitter feed know a big software announcement is pending after being set back multiple times over the past week. Here's one graph illustrating the real-world impact of this yet-to-be-announced open-source move for open operating systems...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=OTU0Ng

[Qaridarium]

"Dirndl" LOOOL ... an German codeword for that one:



and i think its a opensource galium3D openCL implementation from redhat or google

[allquixotic]

and i think its a opensource galium3D openCL implementation from redhat or google

I'm starting to think so, too

[schmidtbag]

i don't get it what is this thing? what does it do? i didn't follow the twitter feeds so i have no idea what this is, how it works, or what it impacts. the numbers look impressive but i don't understand the significance.

[Veerappan]

I'm starting to think so, too

That would make me very happy... Although it would kinda mess with someone's GSoC project a bit.

[chris200x9]

I know you can't say what it is, but can you say when it will be announced?

[smitty3268]

I know you can't say what it is, but can you say when it will be announced?

Well, the article says hopefully Thursday, but it sounds like it's already been delayed a few times so who knows.

From twitter:

something is being open-sourced and made available for free where as up to now it's costed $1795+ per license.

What costs $1800? An icc license maybe?

[alkyl]

given the clues on twitter, maybe something to do with pathscale ekopath

[gbeauche]

given the clues on twitter, maybe something to do with pathscale ekopath

Yes, EKOPath4 was 1795 USD and there is no trace of ordering information on their website, only a link to a "trial", i.e. no link to "purchase". Considering *BSD people already bought and open sourced their C++ runtime, that won't be surprising to get the compiler as the next step. I wish this was ENZO though. On the other hand, ENZO has no price tag and this could be the link to the "OpenSolaris" community Michael mentioned...

[bbordwell]

and i think its a opensource galium3D openCL implementation from redhat or google

The Himeno benchmark is single threaded so there is no way openCL is causing this performance bump.