Of course, the most recent Mac Pros now ship with ATI.

http://www.apple.com/macpro/features/graphics.html

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 9:24 PM, gerald wrong <psillymathh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think PyCUDA should attempt to build correctly as 64bit so once the
> python64 bugs are shaken out, PyCUDA will be able to build on Mac OS X
> without special flags etc.
> My understanding from multiple build attempts is that there is a bug in the
> various Mac 64bit python implementations causing them to run in 32bit even
> when forced 64; this should eventually get fixed (if it has not already).  I
> admit after many days of frustration, I have not tried to build on mac64 in
> about 2 months; perhaps I will give it another go this week and report here
> to the list.
> The ability to devel on Macs is very useful, since newer macs include CUDA
> capable hardware... and there are lots of scientists with macs... Judging by
> the old queries on the mailing list, there are many people who have spent
> time fiddling with PyCUDA on mac64... so there must be significant interest
> in this feature.
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Andreas Kloeckner <li...@informa.tiker.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:37:31 -0400, gerald wrong
>> <psillymathh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Looking at PyCUDA setup.py, I found this:
>> >
>> >     if 'darwin' in sys.platform:
>> >         # prevent from building ppc since cuda on OS X is not compiled
>> > for
>> > ppc
>> >         # also, default to 32-bit build, since there doesn't appear to
>> > be a
>> >         # 64-bit CUDA on Mac yet.
>> >         if "-arch" not in conf["CXXFLAGS"]:
>> >             conf["CXXFLAGS"].extend(['-arch', 'i386', '-m32'])
>> >         if "-arch" not in conf["LDFLAGS"]:
>> >             conf["LDFLAGS"].extend(['-arch', 'i386', '-m32'])
>> >
>> > Since 64bit CUDA support on Mac OS X is a reality since at least
>> > CUDA3.1,
>> > this should be changed.  I know there are other problems regarding 32/64
>> > python stopping 64bit mac users at the moment (including myself), but
>> > since
>> > changes are being made to the PyCUDA code to make it compatible with
>> > CUDA3.2
>> > anyway...
>>
>> It looks like this should just be killed wholesale--right? Or is there
>> anything more appropriate that it should be changed to?
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>
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