Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 03:15:44 +0800 From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?=22C=2E_Bergstr=F6m=22?= <cbergstrom@pathscale.com> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: App Deb <appdebgr@gmail.com>, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-similar build-from-source Linux? Message-ID: <4CDAEF60.1090403@pathscale.com> In-Reply-To: <4CDAED1F.7090909@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <4CDA8F15.506@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <AANLkTinBgFrHLU5FaknGAeXdixKn_j%2BoTiOOEi7uV_AB@mail.gmail.com> <4CDAED1F.7090909@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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O. Hartmann wrote: > >> The NVIDIA FreeBSD driver provides the cuda libraries for linux >> compatibilty. >> >> So 32-bit Linux Cuda applications should work on FreeBSD. > > There are some other, very serious questions. AMD calims that they > made the specs of their 3D chipset internals public. The docs had big missing chunks which I tried to get clarification on and got some help and then it just one day stopped > There is OpenCL as an open standard Try to find the validation test suite.. ($$$) > , there is the CLANG/LLVM project even for FreeBSD Apple licenses it and doesn't publish all opencl work. (or I think may not even contribute to the opencl side at all anymore.. someone correct me) > to become the new standard compiler and, not at last, there is work > done on drivers for AMD graphics boards but there is no, not even > rudimentary, support for GPGPU. I preferr a clean open source > solution, but at the moment, it seems to be the best and easiest path > to switch to an operating system that is fully supported, even 64 bit. Side question - Why care in the least bit about AMD? Their hw sucks and their software is a joke.. (if you bought Evergreen I'm sorry..) There's no such thing as a complete open source GPGPU solution as of today (to the best of my knowledge) ./C
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