From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 10 19:12:39 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 9D7A7106564A for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:12:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cbergstrom@pathscale.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f182.google.com (mail-gx0-f182.google.com [209.85.161.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DFEA8FC0C for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:12:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk9 with SMTP id 9so663005gxk.13 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:12:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.204.103.76 with SMTP id j12mr8615052bko.91.1289416357535; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:12:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.54] (123-193-5-149.dynamic.kbronet.com.tw [123.193.5.149]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f21sm540351bkf.12.2010.11.10.11.12.34 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:12:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4CDAEF60.1090403@pathscale.com> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 03:15:44 +0800 From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?=22C=2E_Bergstr=F6m=22?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "O. Hartmann" References: <4CDA8F15.506@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <4CDAED1F.7090909@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <4CDAED1F.7090909@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: App Deb , "O. Hartmann" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 19:12:39 -0000 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