Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:48:59 +0100 From: usleepless@gmail.com To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Daniel C. Dowse" <dcdowse@gmx.net> Subject: Re: GPUs on FBSD? Message-ID: <c39ec84c0911210348h3fb2c860le156f077046344b@mail.gmail.com> 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> <c39ec84c0911201111k2404dea1oe7303ecd6bea8c05@mail.gmail.com> <20091121112802.GA70284@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>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 <dcdowse@gmx.net> > wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:46:57 +0000 > > > Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> 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 >
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