• "Roy Obena" <robena gmail.com> Feb 01 2013
• "Dejan Lekic" <dejan.lekic gmail.com> Feb 01 2013
• Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> Feb 01 2013
• Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> Feb 02 2013
• Paulo Pinto <pjmlp progtools.org> Feb 02 2013
• Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakeling webdrake.net> Feb 02 2013

"Roy Obena" <robena gmail.com> writes:

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

"Dejan Lekic" <dejan.lekic gmail.com> writes:

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?

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

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.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

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

Paulo Pinto <pjmlp progtools.org> writes:

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

Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakeling webdrake.net> writes:

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.