Nvidia Announces Eclipse-based IDE for Linux, Mac OS X
Now in more flavors.
At Nvidia's GTC event, the company announced Nvidia Nsight, Eclipse Edition, what claims to be the world’s first integrated development environment (IDE) for developing GPU accelerated applications on Linux- and Mac OS-based systems.
The new Nsight, Eclipse Edition, enables CUDA programmers to easily develop, debug and optimize the performance of GPU-accelerated applications within a familiar, highly productive IDE based on the open source Eclipse framework. Key features include:
• Automatic code refactoring – Helps convert slow sequential CPU loops into parallel GPU kernels
• Integrated expert analysis system – Provides automated performance analysis and step-by-step guidance to address application performance bottlenecks
• High-productivity development environment – Syntax highlighting and auto-completion for both CPU and GPU code helps developers program more efficiently
• Integrated code samples, online documentation – Makes it easy for developers to quickly get started
Nvidia also announced an updated version of Nvidia Nsight, Visual Studio Edition for Microsoft Windows developers. Nsight, Visual Studio Edition (formerly known as Nvidia Parallel Nsight) adds a number of new enhancements and updated features, such as local single GPU debugging, which enables CUDA developers to debug their CUDA C/C++ code natively on the hardware with any system equipped with any CUDA 1.1 or higher capable GPU.
Developers can sign up to receive a free preview of Nvidia Nsight, Eclipse Edition or Nsight, Visual Studio Edition by joining the Nvidia GPU Computing Registered Developer program.
Eclipse already has OpenCL modules for development...
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=168251
Cheers!
Because DirectCompute support makes total sense on Mac OS/Linux
Wrong. Neither are Unix-based. Linux was created by Linus Torvalds, and was essentially a project inspired by Minix (a Unix-derivative). Mac OS X is partially Unix, I say this because it is a derivative of NextStep (Unix derivative), and BSD. BSD is a fork of Unix TSS 5, and has since been heavily modified into it's own OS family; as such it is incompatible with Unix applications, yet it shares similar features. As such, Mac OS X can be considered Unix-like; compatible to some extent, but not 'pure' Unix. The two major 'pure' Unix OSes are HP-UX and OpenServer 6.x. However, you are right with Valve's progress on porting to Linux. The Steam Client is being ported, as well as the version of the Source engine that shipped with Left 4 Dead 2 (as is evidenced by Phoronix's pictures and video of L4D2 running on an Ubuntu workstation). The results of the Source/Steam's port remain to be seen.