NVIDIA Buys PGI Compiler Company To Help OpenACC

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA Buys PGI Compiler Company To Help OpenACC

NVIDIA announced earlier this week that they have acquired The Portland Group (PGI), a company well-respected for their code compilers...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTQyNTA

[mark45]

..their blog post says,

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Bringing our teams together further cements our strong, established technical partnership in creating developer tools for the accelerated computing revolution. It also strengthens the OpenACC initiative to create an easy on-ramp to parallel computing by joining the world?s top independent provider of OpenACC compilers with the world?s best GPU designers.

Now Nvidia flush the toilet.

[wargames]

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Bringing our teams together further cements our strong, established technical partnership in creating developer tools for the accelerated computing revolution. It also strengthens the OpenACC initiative to create an easy on-ramp to parallel computing by joining the world?s top independent provider of OpenACC compilers with the world?s best GPU designers.

Now Nvidia flush the toilet.

In other words, they want to have control.

[Calinou]

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Now Nvidia flush the toilet.

It's not like other companies don't do that.