Its been a while since CUDA and OpenCL has been discussed, and I'm wondering if
there has been any progress, or lack thereof, on OpenIndiana, or Solaris, or any
of the other Solaris based distro's?
Assuming there hasn't been any progress, I'm wondering if there can or will be
any movement forward?
I don't mean for this to be a master of the obvious question, obviously someone
has to do the work. Maybe more specifically, is that work done by the OS
vendor/group? Or the graphics card vendor and/or driver author? Or someone
else? I would assume from the Wikipedia page that the software would come from
the graphics card vendor, in our case, most likely, NVidia.
I've been hitting the search engines, and the answers to the above are just not
obvious. Much of the discussion centers around Apple, which controls the full
gamete, from hardware to software.
Jerry
On 03/16/11 12:54 AM, PathScale Inc wrote:
PathScale ENZO is in early beta, but will support compute on (Open)Solaris
or likely any place the latest NVIDIA drivers will work.
http://www.pathscale.com/ENZO
On 02/ 1/13 10:54 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>
> True server-boards normally have a very low-end video interface (often
Matrox).
> Ones designed for workstation use don't have that. Solaris works best with
> Nvidia PCI-e video cards and offers 2D and OpenGL performance similar to Linux
> with those cards. However, there is no support for other GPU programming
> environments like CUDA or OpenCL on Solaris. I have a Quadro 4000 in my
system,
> and had OpenIndiana briefly running on another system with a Quadro 2000.
Make
> sure you check driver availability while selecting a card. You need a 4U
> chassis with a power-supply configuration intended to support video cards.
>
> Bob
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