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Re:Blender 2.79: OpenCL on par with CUDA by tmbsundar on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @11:17AM (#14098488)
Does freebsd support CUDA yet? I tried a year back and it didn't, due to limitations from NVIDIA side.

I like freebsd a lot, but for this reason had to switch back to debian/ kubuntu.

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Re:Blender 2.79: OpenCL on par with CUDA by jacquesm on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @11:34AM (#14098667)
The question should be is NVIDIA supporting FreeBSD yet?

And the answer is so far not. And likely it won't happen, they are supporting Linux because it is a large enough target for their scientific customers, FreeBSD just does not have the market share there.

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Re:Blender 2.79: OpenCL on par with CUDA by floatboth on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @11:53AM (#14098883)
NVIDIA actually releases their proprietary GPU driver for FreeBSD! Has been doing that for a long long time. Also for Solaris.
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Re:Blender 2.79: OpenCL on par with CUDA by jacquesm on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @11:55AM (#14098905)
Yes, but that's not CUDA, just the basic acceleration.

For CUDA supported are Windows, Linux, Mac OSX

https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads

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Re:Blender 2.79: OpenCL on par with CUDA by floatboth on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @12:18PM (#14099135)
Yes, and "is NVIDIA supporting FreeBSD yet" sounds like "do they have anything for FreeBSD at all"
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Re:Blender 2.79: OpenCL on par with CUDA by jacquesm on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @12:53PM (#14099475)
Right, but the thread here was: "Does freebsd support CUDA yet?" and that was the wrong way around.

So all this in the context of CUDA. Sorry for messing that line up.

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Re:Blender 2.79: OpenCL on par with CUDA by astrodust on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @12:39PM (#14099322)
Is FreeBSD supporting the Linux binary-blob format yet?
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Re:Blender 2.79: OpenCL on par with CUDA by floatboth on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @12:51PM (#14099448)
Not for drivers, of course
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Re:Blender 2.79: OpenCL on par with CUDA by astrodust on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @03:40PM (#14101036)
If the FreeBSD and Linux groups could agree on some kind of standard for binary-blob video drivers, the world would probably be a better place.

Even better if there were open-source drivers, but you know, baby steps.

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Re:Blender 2.79: OpenCL on par with CUDA by floatboth on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @04:31PM (#14101461)
Agreeing on a kernel ABI? ha ha not gonna happen :D

There are open source drivers. Only on nvidia they (nouveau) are seriously worse than the proprietary ones. For Intel GPUs, the open source driver is the only driver. For AMD, there are some proprietary drivers but they are becoming obsolete, the fully open amdgpu stack is getting better and better all the time.

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