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From: Antonio Vieiro <antonio@antonioshome.net>
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Subject: Re: Recommended nVidia card for cuda/opencl on FreeBSD?
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> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:59:58 -0700
> From: ??????? ???????? <nm.knife@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Recommended nVidia card for cuda/opencl on FreeBSD?
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> Do you want CUDA 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.0, 2.1 compatible? I have a 9800GT
> (pretty cheap now-a-days + it runs modern games), which has the lowest CU=
DA
> 1.0.
>
> Also, I am interested in how you will do the work. Currently, it's necess=
ary
> to run the CUDA SDK and Toolkit under Linux emulation or chroot, despite =
the
> fact that the NVIDIA drivers for FreeBSD include CUDA support. According =
to
> this,
> http://blogs.freebsdish.org/jhb/2010/07/20/using-cuda-with-the-native-fre=
ebsdamd64-nvidia-driver/,
> you still need to compile the CUDA apps under Linux, where the SDK is. On=
ly
> after that you can run the binaries on FreeBSD.
>

Since this is just for experimentation I imagine cuda 1.0 would do.
The SDK on Linux is a non issue, I imagine.

Thanks for the info,
Antonio