2010/11/10 "C. Bergström" <[email protected]>: > App Deb wrote: >> >> 2010/11/10 O. Hartmann <[email protected]>: >> >>> >>> Hello out there, >>> >>> well, my question may sound heretic, but since we use mostly Linux based >>> systems in our scientific environment and FreeBSD seems to lack in severe >>> support in GPGPU/CUDA capable graphics boards I need to setup a kind of >>> Linux facility to ensure having the software and tools I need for my >>> work. >>> I'm looking for a Linux distribution that is similar handled like >>> FreeBSD, >>> where I'm able to rebuild the whole system from sources, not even the the >>> Linux kernel, also the GNU tools and the packages. Maybe there are some >>> people out here having already taken this step. >>> Any suggestion is appreciated, >>> >> >> The NVIDIA FreeBSD driver provides the cuda libraries for linux >> compatibilty. >> >> So 32-bit Linux Cuda applications should work on FreeBSD. >> > > Have you tested this first hand? > > Is there 32bit Fermi? (Sorry, but I don't think the HPC world can really > live off 32bit applications) > > There's 2 types of code in a "cuda application" there's host code produced > by the native compiler (gcc/intel/pathscale.. etc) and the device code.. > produced by nvidia's toolchain.. I would make a pretty nice bet that the > nvidia userland toolchain will not compile code on freebsd right now.. (not > be negative here, but I'm intimately familiar with it..) Worse case you'd > be copying code built on linux over and also the runtime libs.. (not to > mention debugger, profiler. etc) > > Anyway.. as mentioned before we'll have a native working solution before the > years end and anyone interested to help alpha/beta test is welcome to > contact me offlist.. > > ./C >
No sorry I don't have any experience with cuda. I have only tested this: http://cuda-z.sourceforge.net/ And the linux binary seems to recognize everything under FreeBSD (linuxulator + nvidia). You will probably need to setup a linux toolchain to do the work. I know this is not a good solution. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
