On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 12:50:12AM -0700, Hamish wrote: > As I understand it, CUDA is 100% dependent on the closed-source binary > driver from nVidia and works on their video cards alone. Which is fine > for today for people with nVidia hardware using their binary video > card driver. If nVidia decides in a couple of years to stop supporting > CUDA, your old card, your specific OS or distro, your OS or distro > version+cpu type, or if they go out of business or are bought/sold to > another company who is not interested, any code based on it becomes > useless. For this reason code written for an open platform such as > OpenCL, even if less advanced, seems to have a brighter long-term > future. >
+1 Don't feed the lockers -- Francesco P. Lovergine _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
