From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 21 11:49:01 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 59CCD106566C for ; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:49:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from usleepless@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f213.google.com (mail-bw0-f213.google.com [209.85.218.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D606C8FC13 for ; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:49:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz5 with SMTP id 5so4285240bwz.3 for ; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:48:59 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=/KCYe061eUmaRBr65FnbKA5hVyxwqDsVqUnb3lgvCpg=; b=PJIWJ2C/mt4sdGEcdTG5ae+LIOWpi/OWQQpZxUsL62zBbBSGWJhGZcuycSME7SQk38 i0aXfFcNqMz1zGMlHbrm3FoZaAL2hItvV9ifCR7wuiU32X7ROqMuQQk/OhQKDfAluFl+ Q5zBgsmSlN/y7t9W1iVe+CCbOZbWue4f+4vks= 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 :cc:content-type; b=JUSuEayN+IlI3O1QpOWmnz5YrZgzvscm5oGv+MQzSUehXSWqiZ3c1CtzidXFQVb+6I 1lHAbXsiw7cY6dbOVnWzRuu654JdwxDoOqKK8mvbNuqLp6JQZ0jhnMi3To+qzV+iEiPr KgsocztwBJv0yUjAAkuLqRNecGvo6Mmg9OgxE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.48.194 with SMTP id s2mr2462663bkf.210.1258804139703; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:48:59 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20091121112802.GA70284@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20091120114657.GA22584@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091120181629.3e1a3aee.dcdowse@gmx.net> <20091121112802.GA70284@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:48:59 +0100 Message-ID: From: usleepless@gmail.com To: Anton Shterenlikht Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: 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 11:49:01 -0000 On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > 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 > I looked at CUDA lately and according to Nvidia the library stuff/driver you need is not available for FreeBSD ( Linux, Windows ). I forgot about if it is supported on Mac. The talk/announcement on the Nvidia forum is about a native video driver for amd64 i believe. A lot of people are waiting for this ( currently there is only Nvidia support for i386 ). I don't think they are talking about including CUDA support. There is no OpenCL implementation for FreeBSD that i am aware of ( did look ). regards, usleep > -- > 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 >