From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 21 11:28:08 2009 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 A3F771065695 for ; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:28:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirj.bris.ac.uk (dirj.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F7E18FC12 for ; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:28:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from isis.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.63]) by dirj.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NBo8K-0005u9-Aa; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:28:07 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by isis.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1NBo8J-0004pb-Df; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:28:03 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nALBS38L070309; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:28:03 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nALBS3At070308; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:28:03 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:28:03 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: usleepless@gmail.com Message-ID: <20091121112802.GA70284@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20091120114657.GA22584@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091120181629.3e1a3aee.dcdowse@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Spam-Score: -1.5 X-Spam-Level: - Cc: Anton Shterenlikht , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Daniel C. Dowse" Subject: Re: GPUs on FBSD? 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: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:28:08 -0000 On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 08:11:57PM +0100, usleepless@gmail.com wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Daniel C. Dowse wrote: > > > On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:46:57 +0000 > > Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > > > Anybody knows of working GPUs under FBSD on any arch? > > > Any advice? > > > > > > > I using a nvidia fx5500 with the latest driver 173.14.22 on i386 and > > it works perfect. And it was no pain to get 3d working for games. > > > > I am still wondering what this thread is actually about: is it about > hardware accelerated video or about offloading general computation to the > GPU ( CUDA et al. ). the latter. My question was about HPC application of GPUs. Use of GPGPUs for HPC under linux is growing very fast, with cuda and opencl. However, I doubt any GPUs will be supported on fbsd. At least not at this stage. Unless somebody knows better? many thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423