Radeon as CUDA device?

[Roland Scheidegger]

On 10.07.2009 00:06, wild-thing wrote:
> Hello there!
> 
> I guess this could be a feature request: (An unusual question)
> 
> I am sure you know BOINC: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ I am spending
> processor time for one of the related projects as user only. And
> there is possibility to use a graphicsboard as a so called CUDA
> device with the BOINC client software.
> 
> This is using the Graphicsboard as an additional hardware for faster
> calculations. Currently it seems to only work with NVidia boards? So
> here is my question:
> 
> Are there plans of the xorg developement team to add possibility to
> use lets say my: "X1950 XTX" as a CUDA device with "radeon" driver?
> 
> Can you implement this or would u at least, please?

CUDA probably doesn't map too well to radeon hardware. Plus you've got a
pre-r600 card which isn't really suited to that anyway. I guess there
would be interest in implementing OpenCL, but only for r600 and beyond,
but I don't think anyone is working on that already...
(Note that for closed source AMD drivers you can get the stream sdk
today, but this is restricted to cards newer than r600 too.)

Roland