I'm a newbie to D. I was wondering if D can be compiled to run on the Xeon Phi co-processor.

On Friday, 1 February 2013 at 15:18:28 UTC, Roy Obena wrote:
> I'm a newbie to D. I was wondering if D can be compiled to run on the Xeon Phi co-processor.

Apparently, GCC should have support for Xeon Phi by now: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTEyMjY . This means that GDC (http://gdcproject.org/) should be able to build Xeon Phi friendly executables. I am just guessing here. Do you have Xeon Phi? If so, what is the price?

On 2013-02-01 16:27, Dejan Lekic wrote:

> Apparently, GCC should have support for Xeon Phi by now:
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTEyMjY . This means
> that GDC (http://gdcproject.org/) should be able to build Xeon Phi
> friendly executables. I am just guessing here. Do you have Xeon Phi? If
> so, what is the price?

There's also the problem of porting the runtime, if not already done.

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/Jacob Carlborg

On 02/01/2013 04:55 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> There's also the problem of porting the runtime, if not already done.

Aren't the Xeon Phi chips designed to be x86-compatible?  The runtime could surely be optimized for them, but wouldn't necessarily need to be ported per se.

On 2013-02-02 15:05, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:

> Aren't the Xeon Phi chips designed to be x86-compatible?  The runtime
> could surely be optimized for them, but wouldn't necessarily need to be
> ported per se.

I have no idea what Xeon Phi is. I assumed it was non-x86 since the question was asked and all D compilers support x86.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

Am 02.02.2013 17:51, schrieb Jacob Carlborg:
> On 2013-02-02 15:05, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
>
>> Aren't the Xeon Phi chips designed to be x86-compatible?  The runtime
>> could surely be optimized for them, but wouldn't necessarily need to be
>> ported per se.
>
> I have no idea what Xeon Phi is. I assumed it was non-x86 since the
> question was asked and all D compilers support x86.
>

The processor formerly known as Larabee.

http://www.intel.de/content/www/us/en/high-performance-computing/high-performance-xeon-phi-coprocessor-brief.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/xeon-phi-larrabee-stampede-hpc,3342.html