Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:06:44 +0200 From: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> To: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: Ivan Klymenko <fidaj@ukr.net>, emorras@xroff.net, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD, GPGPU and OpenCL/CUDA Message-ID: <201008170106.45377.pieter@degoeje.nl> In-Reply-To: <4C69A704.5080109@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <4C666786.6000205@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <201008162113.36731.pieter@degoeje.nl> <4C69A704.5080109@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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On Monday 16 August 2010 23:00:52 Hartmann, O. wrote: > On 08/16/10 21:13, Pieter de Goeje wrote: > > On Monday 16 August 2010 16:50:01 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 05:33:33PM +0300, Ivan Klymenko wrote: > >>>> I think it might be worthwhile to contact nVidia directly about this. > >>>> To raise awareness that there are people using FreeBSD for HPC and > >>>> that they very much would like to see OpenCL/CUDA supported. > >> > >> how is this different from getting e.g. native Flash or Matlab on FBSD? > >> We've been trying to "raise awareness" for years.. > > > > So did we for the nvidia driver on amd64. > > > > I'm not saying that we will be successful, I'm just saying if they're not > > even aware of this need that it will never happen. > > > > - Pieter > > I think they are aware, but the number of users is very, very low. Since > modern 3D accerlerated and GPGPU capable drivers are developed > dominantly under Linux, BSDs lack in modern > architectures like KMS necessary running those modern drivers, so in > case of the 64Bit video drivers it could be more a lack in the > underlying technical infrastructure than the low number of users. But I > do not know. > > Oliver The amd64 driver was an illustration of something where raising awareness or whatever you might call it actually helped IMHO. Unfortunately this is a chicken-and-egg problem. No HPC users means no demand means no incentive to do something about it means no HPC users ad infinitum. But I'm sure you're already knew that. - Pieter
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