Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 10:04:38 +0000 From: Carmel NY <carmel_ny@outlook.com> To: 'FreeBSD' <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: CUDA under FreeBSD Message-ID: <BN6PR2001MB17307310025DD6DE64A563A9803D0@BN6PR2001MB1730.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> In-Reply-To: <0545699d-9df7-ced2-4990-27e3ecb8e531@ShaneWare.Biz> References: <34331.107.77.207.211.1512384505.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <0545699d-9df7-ced2-4990-27e3ecb8e531@ShaneWare.Biz>
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--=-=lO46kCFZ6rJRAP=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tuesday, December 5, 2017 2:53 AM, Shane Ambler stated: > On 04/12/2017 21:19, galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote: > > On Mon, December 4, 2017 4:24 am, Carmel NY wrote: > >> Out of morbid curiosity, I was wondering if anyone could tell me the > >> real reason that Nvidia does not support CUDA under > > > > Arrogance would be my guess. >=20 > The morbid part is that they give us the linux libcuda, so we should be a= ble to > run linux binaries that use cuda, just not native apps. >=20 > >> FreeBSD? Also, what are the realistic expectations for it getting > >> supported shortly? > > > > Zero is my estimate. The way to let one's steam about them is just not > > to buy ther hardware. Their attitude to open sourse and unwillingness > > to disclose details of their hardware was always much worse than that > > of their competitors (ATI/AMD, matrox...). > > > > This is just my opinion based on my subjective observations. Personally, I have always considered Nvidia products to be superior. > I'm sure on an episode of bsdnow, they mentioned asking an nvidia dev at > one of the conferences and they said there shouldn't be any technical > reason, it just isn't enabled in the build and they would look into it. > Still hasn't helped any. Interesting. I was not aware of that. It would seem to me that there should= be more of an=20 concerted effort to get this issue resolved. --=20 Carmel --=-=lO46kCFZ6rJRAP=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAABCAAdFiEEh3rFs7ZCOM581rwKjsagALPkYOsFAlombyAACgkQjsagALPk YOvv/Af/WyAp4iApFvc5RPjsjfzuxlpWyMb+I8ANriHgMQu5xrqMPaqb6Y2NYO1E EeDvtX7NwXROUXm9D3j/Qt6fXJC0NjuOwy8hRefEq63UAitrfFqymXWtT8f6Jzp/ nF+bPgdsYd6yqG8mzmg8QY/enKSYFSAhEzKdVU2GYZK+jAygx+bClxu7qejpcN8L keGJoN/jaY5/fLqQtmdCMl9Hvzv7uFbH4racJGW9rfiHb8BMefFUGD5PIvHNhUuF FwO3rYMZuV977ooknI/1p1vRn8yqufEaB+f4+bFZeWRirvvDBEnY6OaT+MjsfvOL pnHNgvJv4M538dqRFMHGkJwfkj9xBg== =/vsK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=lO46kCFZ6rJRAP=-=--
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