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

[Aurélien Larcher]

Hi,
since GPU acceleration toolkits are mostly proprietary and not available on
Solaris/Illumos, I think our only option is OpenACC support with GCC 5.

Aurelien

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Jerry Kemp <sun.mail.list47 at oryx.us> wrote:

> 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
>
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