Re: Hama and GPGPU

["Edward J. Yoon" <ed...@apache.org>]

> Right now after there is a segmentation fault in the CUDA on the GPU,
> Rootbeer cannot recover. Normal Java exceptions are fine, but if the
> compiler outputs invalid generated code and it has a fault, you must
> restart the process.

Thanks for your clarification!

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 2:38 AM, Phil Pratt-Szeliga <pc...@trifort.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>> Good start! It looks really nice to me.
>
> We are working on fixing some of the bugs involved with this. Rootbeer
> right now is very close to a new release with a new class loader that
> greatly improves compilation time and CUDA C code generation
> robustness. 41/60 test cases are passing on this alpha version.
>
>> One must be aware though, we need to check whether there are no
>> license issues. Rootbeer looks distributed under the MIT License (Dear
>> Philip C. Pratt-Szeliga, if I'm wrong please let me know). According
>> to http://apache.org/legal/3party.html, MIT and BSD are fully
>> compatible.
>
> Yes, you can use Rootbeer for any purpose free of charge and license
> restrictions.
>
>> Another one is about fault tolerance.
>
> Right now after there is a segmentation fault in the CUDA on the GPU,
> Rootbeer cannot recover. Normal Java exceptions are fine, but if the
> compiler outputs invalid generated code and it has a fault, you must
> restart the process.
>
> Sincerely,
> Phil Pratt-Szeliga
> Syracuse University



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