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Better OpenCL support in NVIDIA's CUDA SDK

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Jan Bielański
11 years ago

NVIDIA needs support OpenCL because is is open standard such as OpenGL for graphics programming. It is not a threat for CUDA but natural enlargement of existed development environment.

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antonio colino
11 years ago

this will without doubt , effect the use of nvidia gpus in super computing

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antonio colino
11 years ago

this will without doubt , effect the use of nvidia gpus in super computing

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Priyadarshi Sharma
12 years ago

Godammit no timeline when I ran the latest visual profiler. Need cache hit counters!!!!!!

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John W
12 years ago

Give us OpenCL or give us death!

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Anonymous
12 years ago

CUDA is dead, OpenCL won/. NVidia, you're throwing money down the tubes in not also supporting OpenCL 1.2/2.0. From all this lost revenue, just fire yourselves. Your competitors are blowing you away.

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Anonymous
12 years ago

Please put some work into supporting OpenCL 1.2 and / or 2.0!

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Christian Kehl
12 years ago

please put the OpenCL samples back - the chip supports it, why does the software not anymore ?!!!

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Geetha Venkatesh
12 years ago

OpenCL is updated to 2.0 version. It does almost all the things as CUDA. Extend the support. :)

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Julien-Benjamin RUIZ
12 years ago

As many fields would take advantage of GPGPU, it is unbelievable that, for commercial reasons, one major company push is own proprietary solution over an open standard. Everything is said, I guess.

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Samuel Ferraz
12 years ago

I have worked with OpenCL on CUDA architecture for 3 years and it's clear that they no longer want to give high quality support for OpenCL. Through the years they've removed the OpenCL guides for the CUDA architecture from the website and now we can't even run the oclDeviceQuery due to missing libraries. I'm getting back on my research with OpenCL but, unfortunately, NVIDIA is forcing me to try AMD's architecture out. All I want from NVIDIA is respect to their customers.

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chris
12 years ago

Open implies superior verification, bug detection and faster adoptation by customers.

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Anonymous
12 years ago

Need a common standard

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Dain Rymdeko
12 years ago

Being a relatively avid cruncher for Folding@home for a number of years. Nvidia is missing out on a decent market not including higher level OpenCL support. F@H's GPU cores are built around OpenCL. Since a sizable number of people who run F@H also run folding "farms" they tend to go the AMD route since AMD outperforms Nvidia by a LARGE margin. I'm honestly starting to think of stepping away from Nvidia for this reason alone. You'd think that if they enhance their support for OpenCL in their drivers, along with having CUDA, the combined effort would give Nvidia a boost over ATI which use only OpenCL.

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Christos Antonopoulos
12 years ago

OpenCL support on NVidia GPUs is more and more declining. Stop this trend!

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Toby St Clere Smithe
12 years ago

Unify HPC!

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Jonas August
12 years ago Featured

Dear Nvidia, Please provide top-tier support for OpenCL. You already make quality, stable hardware with reliable drivers on Linux. To hold on to this position of strength by slowly back-pedaling from OpenCL shows insecurity instead of confidence. It also signals a focus of Nvidia's GPGPU for only HPC and not mobile.

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Hojat
12 years ago

plz!

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Johannes Unterguggenberger
12 years ago

Dammit NVIDIA, restore that OpenCL support!

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Karl Rupp
12 years ago Featured

For me as a computational scientist who is funded by the public it is only fair to return the results of my research to the public in the form of free open source code. Consequently, I can only rely on open standards such as OpenCL. Good hardware does not need a software-based vendor-lock.