Vojtěch Král 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 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