[LLVMdev] GSoC: PTX Back-End for LLVM

Tobias Grosser
Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:48:22 -0000

On 03/28/2011 09:00 PM, 陳韋任 wrote:
> Hi, Justin
>
>> I am going to submit a GSoC proposal for LLVM this year, and I would
like to
>> first post it here to get constructive feedback before I submit it
before
>> the April 8 deadline.  This is the first time I have submitted a GSoC
>> proposal, so please be brutal with the feedback. :)
>
>    Can I join this project, if possible? I am also interested in PTX
> backend.

Hi chenwj,

you can obviously contribute to the LLVM PTX backend and I am sure
Justin will help to review your patches.

However, if you are asking in respect of the Google Summer of Code, then
it is not possible for two students to apply together for one project.
You can apply for the same project as Justin and LLVM is free to take
both of you. However, most probably the better application will win.
Another option is that you discuss with Justin and Che-Liang Chiou to
see if it is possible for both of you to focus on different parts of the
PTX code generation, such that both of you work in the same area, but on
different sub-projects. Another project closely related PTX  may e.g.
include work on the clang CUDA or OpenCL frontend which Justin pointed
out as still being unfinished. See in his "Future Work" section.

Cheers
Tobi