From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 10 18:22:48 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C95461065670 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:22:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pldrouin@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f54.google.com (mail-yw0-f54.google.com [209.85.213.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 812318FC25 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:22:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywa8 with SMTP id 8so61450ywa.13 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:22:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=ng07MmSZZ0ikSx8Himmoy6WB+HgCIw0PxKDiM7V0K6c=; b=wit0ra/cspgf7JtOH1ej0/UDEfcQeEsAshuXirIetGMheik5VPB9exmguz5D0bxVZF d87te85P76ACvwe1CiH2eT9YwA1amnIj89mG0F9Ze6k2esd/nLcduq473NHTZM9f8S5l gwjQBZrFiwoDXCqzDXUwjfJBTUWe0i5CiU2Ko= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=KUuL1MLtLPOTokqWf2IKLai6gOR6mbdHxjtxz7l2J0w0nFRly73c0QnWwWgk0ryeFI 22lsRWI662U5iAK8+nKninu+ItFwZMFnkK/4hQLcUCjSGWOUB9pRYpOP2xG33l21TVLb EHBhPCqA+XE4IGSRlyPb1dPXt1Zjg4wNfGRyE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.119.133 with SMTP id z5mr5121044bkq.82.1289413366791; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:22:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.204.118.194 with HTTP; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:22:46 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4CDAE252.1060805@pathscale.com> References: <4CDA8F15.506@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <4CDAE252.1060805@pathscale.com> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:22:46 -0500 Message-ID: From: Pierre-Luc Drouin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: FreeBSD-similar build-from-source Linux? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:22:48 -0000 I am interested to use CUDA as well for a scientific environment. What abou= t CUDA 64bit on FreeBSD? Is it excluded completely because of the lack of support for Linux 64bit emulation? Thanks! 2010/11/10 "C. Bergstr=F6m" > App Deb wrote: > >> 2010/11/10 O. Hartmann : >> >> >>> Hello out there, >>> >>> well, my question may sound heretic, but since we use mostly Linux base= d >>> systems in our scientific environment and FreeBSD seems to lack in seve= re >>> support in GPGPU/CUDA capable graphics boards I need to setup a kind of >>> Linux facility to ensure having the software and tools I need for my >>> work. >>> I'm looking for a Linux distribution that is similar handled like >>> FreeBSD, >>> where I'm able to rebuild the whole system from sources, not even the t= he >>> Linux kernel, also the GNU tools and the packages. Maybe there are some >>> people out here having already taken this step. >>> Any suggestion is appreciated, >>> >>> >> >> The NVIDIA FreeBSD driver provides the cuda libraries for linux >> compatibilty. >> >> So 32-bit Linux Cuda applications should work on FreeBSD. >> >> > Have you tested this first hand? > > Is there 32bit Fermi? (Sorry, but I don't think the HPC world can really > live off 32bit applications) > > There's 2 types of code in a "cuda application" there's host code produce= d > by the native compiler (gcc/intel/pathscale.. etc) and the device code.. > produced by nvidia's toolchain.. I would make a pretty nice bet that the > nvidia userland toolchain will not compile code on freebsd right now.. (= not > be negative here, but I'm intimately familiar with it..) Worse case you'= d > be copying code built on linux over and also the runtime libs.. (not to > mention debugger, profiler. etc) > > Anyway.. as mentioned before we'll have a native working solution before > the years end and anyone interested to help alpha/beta test is welcome to > contact me offlist.. > > ./C > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >