[OpenIndiana-discuss] current status? - Re: [xwin-discuss] OpenCL or CUDA?

[Jerry Kemp]

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