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For those wanting to try it for themselves, we recently released a preview of our full stack for Mac (containing both OmniSciDB as well as our Immerse frontend for interactive visual analytics), available for free here: https://www.omnisci.com/mac-preview. This is a bit of an experiment for us, so we'd love your feedback! Note that the Mac preview doesn't yet have the scalable rendering capabilities our platform is known for, but stay tuned.

You can also install the open source version of OmniSciDB, either via tar/deb/rpm/Docker for Linux (https://www.omnisci.com/platform/downloads/open-source) or by following the build instructions for Mac in our git repo: https://github.com/omnisci/omniscidb (hopefully will have standalone builds for Mac up soon). You can also run a Dockerized version on your Mac, but as a disclaimer the performance, particularly around storage access, lags a bare metal install.

i have zero experience authoring brew packages but as a consumer, a ‘brew install omniscidb’ would be really nice. especially with things like database that you might build apps that depend on it, it’s convenient to have a tool manage versions installed. it’s also very nice to have a common interface for me to manage these things. i use brew for mysql postgres redis qt rbenv node and more. fitting into that ecosystem makes it easier for me to bring this in as a dependency as it just another brew dev dependency.

There's an old issue in your Github repo where you suggest that you may support OpenCL for GPU.

Is this on your roadmap?

Unfortunately it's probably not in the cards in the near term just do to other priorities and insufficient demand (plus alternatives like HIP for AMD). I will say a lot of us here at OmniSci would kill to leverage the latent GPUs in our Macs and other places, so we'd welcome any community help towards this end (it's not a trivial thing to add, but also not particularly difficult either, just work).

We'll plan to update that issue with the above.

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