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Date:      Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:13:35 +0200
From:      Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl>
To:        Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
Cc:        Ivan Klymenko <fidaj@ukr.net>, emorras@xroff.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD, GPGPU and OpenCL/CUDA
Message-ID:  <201008162113.36731.pieter@degoeje.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20100816145001.GA90619@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
References:  <4C666786.6000205@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20100816173333.4a1bba57@ukr.net> <20100816145001.GA90619@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>

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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



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