Radeon as CUDA device?

[Ancoron Luciferis]

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OpenCL would be really great!

I know it's a big fat load of work but there needs to be something soon,
because nVidia is much bigger already in the computing world. And using
the Stream SDK is not of much use for many developers because they know
that they have to do the work twice as nVidia's CUDA can't just be
ignored - for economical reasons of the business.

Doesn't AMD already work on OpenCL for their cards? Well if they do they
should make it open source from the beginning, because otherwise the
OpenCL implementation will have similar problems as their proprietary
drivers have: some things just don't work in some situations.

Ancoron

Roland Scheidegger wrote:
> 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
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