[arch-general] Wiki entry for GPGPU / OpenCL / CUDA
Hey everyone,... From recent discussions about troubles with OpenCL as well as comments in AUR, forums, etc.. I got the impression that the whole thing is pretty confusing for an outsider... and for an insider too for that matter. So I put up a wiki entry. So far it's a wip article on my wiki profile here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Kralyk/GPGPU I'd like you to + have a look at it and tell me what you think of it ;-) + check if my wording is tolerable enough - English isn't my native language, feel free to correct + See if you know anything about the (missing) Nvidia/CUDA parts I myself am not really acquainted with CUDA and Nvidia-flavoured OpenCL so I'd like to ask if someone CUDA-savvy out there would be so kind as to help out and fill in those gaps. Regards, ~kralyk
Vojtěch Král <kral.vojtech@gmail.com> writes:
Hey everyone,... From recent discussions about troubles with OpenCL as well as comments in AUR, forums, etc.. I got the impression that the whole thing is pretty confusing for an outsider... and for an insider too for that matter. So I put up a wiki entry.
So far it's a wip article on my wiki profile here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Kralyk/GPGPU
I'd like you to + have a look at it and tell me what you think of it ;-)
Nice work. Well, yes, CUDA is missing.
+ check if my wording is tolerable enough - English isn't my native language, feel free to correct
I think it OK, I'm not native English speaker either.
+ See if you know anything about the (missing) Nvidia/CUDA parts I myself am not really acquainted with CUDA and Nvidia-flavoured OpenCL so I'd like to ask if someone CUDA-savvy out there would be so kind as to help out and fill in those gaps.
But I don't know that --- I have an ATI card myself.
Regards, ~kralyk
I learned that ImageMagick supports OpenCL processing, and I tried with my card, but failed. Those samples from amdstream worked fine, but ImageMagick always failed with it. Could you please write something on that? And perhaps more on other software that supports OpenCL. -- Carl Lei (XeCycle) Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University OpenPGP public key: 7795E591 Fingerprint: 1FB6 7F1F D45D F681 C845 27F7 8D71 8EC4 7795 E591
Hi, thanks for response. I just redesigned the article a bit, hope it's still ok ;-) I'll have a look at that imagemagick's opencl, I'll see what I can find out... ~kralyk 2011/8/9 XeCycle <xecycle@gmail.com>:
Vojtěch Král <kral.vojtech@gmail.com> writes:
Hey everyone,... From recent discussions about troubles with OpenCL as well as comments in AUR, forums, etc.. I got the impression that the whole thing is pretty confusing for an outsider... and for an insider too for that matter. So I put up a wiki entry.
So far it's a wip article on my wiki profile here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Kralyk/GPGPU
I'd like you to + have a look at it and tell me what you think of it ;-)
Nice work. Well, yes, CUDA is missing.
+ check if my wording is tolerable enough - English isn't my native language, feel free to correct
I think it OK, I'm not native English speaker either.
+ See if you know anything about the (missing) Nvidia/CUDA parts I myself am not really acquainted with CUDA and Nvidia-flavoured OpenCL so I'd like to ask if someone CUDA-savvy out there would be so kind as to help out and fill in those gaps.
But I don't know that --- I have an ATI card myself.
Regards, ~kralyk
I learned that ImageMagick supports OpenCL processing, and I tried with my card, but failed. Those samples from amdstream worked fine, but ImageMagick always failed with it. Could you please write something on that? And perhaps more on other software that supports OpenCL.
-- Carl Lei (XeCycle) Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University OpenPGP public key: 7795E591 Fingerprint: 1FB6 7F1F D45D F681 C845 27F7 8D71 8EC4 7795 E591
On Tue, 9 Aug 2011 03:14:04 +0200, Vojtěch Král <kral.vojtech@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey everyone,... From recent discussions about troubles with OpenCL as well as comments in AUR, forums, etc.. I got the impression that the whole thing is pretty confusing for an outsider... and for an insider too for that matter. So I put up a wiki entry.
So far it's a wip article on my wiki profile here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Kralyk/GPGPU
I'd like you to + have a look at it and tell me what you think of it ;-) + check if my wording is tolerable enough - English isn't my native language, feel free to correct + See if you know anything about the (missing) Nvidia/CUDA parts I myself am not really acquainted with CUDA and Nvidia-flavoured OpenCL so I'd like to ask if someone CUDA-savvy out there would be so kind as to help out and fill in those gaps.
Regards, ~kralyk
Hi, That's a very good idea, and your article looks really good :) I added some stuff about CUDA (I'm the maintainer of the cuda-{toolkit,sdk} packages on the AUR) and Nvidia's OpenCL (not familiar with it though). There is room for improvements, but it should be enough for a start. HTH. Should this page also mention some {CUDA,OpenCL}-accelerated apps or language bindings such as PyCUDA and PyOpenCL? Regards, -- Thomas/Schnouki
Vojtěch Král (2011-08-09 03:14):
Hey everyone,... From recent discussions about troubles with OpenCL as well as comments in AUR, forums, etc.. I got the impression that the whole thing is pretty confusing for an outsider... and for an insider too for that matter. So I put up a wiki entry.
So far it's a wip article on my wiki profile here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Kralyk/GPGPU
I'd like you to + have a look at it and tell me what you think of it ;-) + check if my wording is tolerable enough - English isn't my native language, feel free to correct + See if you know anything about the (missing) Nvidia/CUDA parts I myself am not really acquainted with CUDA and Nvidia-flavoured OpenCL so I'd like to ask if someone CUDA-savvy out there would be so kind as to help out and fill in those gaps.
Regards, ~kralyk
Nice work. A few days ago I wanted to know whether xf86-video-ati supports OpenCL, but didn't take the time to find out, and here it is :) Anybody knows whether there are plans to have OpenCL support in xf86-video-ati (if at all possible)? Btw., the heading "OpenCL libraray" should be "OpenCL library". -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos
Dne 9. srpna 2011 11:06 Thomas Jost <schnouki@schnouki.net> napsal(a):
I added some stuff about CUDA (I'm the maintainer of the cuda-{toolkit,sdk} packages on the AUR) and Nvidia's OpenCL (not familiar with it though). There is room for improvements, but it should be enough for a start. HTH.
Thanks!
Should this page also mention some {CUDA,OpenCL}-accelerated apps or language bindings such as PyCUDA and PyOpenCL?
Yea, I think so. Language bindings - definitely. And as for {CUDA,OpenCL}-accelerated apps, a simple list of links will do I think. Anyway I set up subsections for these. 2011/8/9 Rogutės Sparnuotos <rogutes@googlemail.com>:
Vojtěch Král (2011-08-09 03:14):
A few days ago I wanted to know whether xf86-video-ati supports OpenCL, but didn't take the time to find out, and here it is :) Anybody knows whether there are plans to have OpenCL support in xf86-video-ati (if at all possible)?
Well I read the info at http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature (scroll all the way down to the bottom of the grid) It says "TODO" on relevant chips so I guess they'd like to implement it... But there's a lot of work to it I think. ~kralyk
Okay, I made a few more touches to the article and I think it's getting quite complete... May I publish it yet? ~kralyk
2011/8/10 Vojtěch Král <kral.vojtech@gmail.com>:
Okay, I made a few more touches to the article and I think it's getting quite complete... May I publish it yet? ~kralyk
+1 from me, go ahead and remember to add it to some categories :-)
Jesus I obivously have a great "knack" for moving stuff around on wiki :O Sorry for all the mess, should be ok now, with categories and everything... ~kralyk 2011/8/10 Karol Blazewicz <karol.blazewicz@gmail.com>:
2011/8/10 Vojtěch Král <kral.vojtech@gmail.com>:
Okay, I made a few more touches to the article and I think it's getting quite complete... May I publish it yet? ~kralyk
+1 from me, go ahead and remember to add it to some categories :-)
2011/8/10 Vojtěch Král <kral.vojtech@gmail.com>:
Jesus I obivously have a great "knack" for moving stuff around on wiki :O Sorry for all the mess, should be ok now, with categories and everything... ~kralyk
2011/8/10 Karol Blazewicz <karol.blazewicz@gmail.com>:
2011/8/10 Vojtěch Král <kral.vojtech@gmail.com>:
Okay, I made a few more touches to the article and I think it's getting quite complete... May I publish it yet? ~kralyk
+1 from me, go ahead and remember to add it to some categories :-)
Unfortunately you added your article to categories that don't exist ;-) The categories should read [[Category:Development (English)]] [[Category:Graphics (English)]] instead of [[Category:Category:Development (English)]] [[Category:Category:Graphics (English)]] Fixed it. Great job with the article!
2011/8/10 Karol Blazewicz <karol.blazewicz@gmail.com>:
Unfortunately you added your article to categories that don't exist ;-) The categories should read [[Category:Development (English)]] [[Category:Graphics (English)]] instead of [[Category:Category:Development (English)]] [[Category:Category:Graphics (English)]]
Fixed it.
Great job with the article!
Oh... I obviously need some break now... Anyway thank you! ~kralyk
participants (5)
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Karol Blazewicz
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Rogutės Sparnuotos
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Thomas Jost
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Vojtěch Král
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XeCycle