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Re: Have GPGPU support in guix?
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Have GPGPU support in guix? |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 14:41:30 +0200 |
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Hello,
Joshua Branson <address@hidden> skribis:
> Fis Trivial <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi Guixs, this is actually a feature wish.
>>
>> I tried to use guix to manage many of my softwares on my system, but
>> some dependencies are missing which is blocking a full transition to
>> Guix based system and development environment. Most notably is GPU
>> computing support.
>>
>> My daily routine is doing machine learning, which requires GPU for
>> computing nowadays. Currently I need to use CUDA from NVidia, as many of
>> you might know, it's not free software, not even an open source
>> software. However, it's the de fato toolchain in deep learning
>> community, so basically it's a must have dependency for most of the
>> related libraries if you want decent performance. Time passes and
>> hardwork have been done, now we have some libraries ported to OpenCL or
>> HIP (from AMD), it's not mature yet but I think we have a pretty good
>> shot at working them out in near future.
>
> Since this is a GNU endorsed distro, guixSD will never have an official
> way to install or use CUDA.
Indeed. Specifically, the project is committed to following the FSDG,
so CUDA doesn’t belong in Guix:
https://gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html
Free software that you might find of interest is POCL, an OpenCL
implementation (not yet packaged in Guix):
https://github.com/pocl/pocl
Ludo’.
- Have GPGPU support in guix?, Fis Trivial, 2018/04/24
- Re: Have GPGPU support in guix?, Joshua Branson, 2018/04/24
- Re: Have GPGPU support in guix?, Fis Trivial, 2018/04/24
- Re: Have GPGPU support in guix?,
Ludovic Courtès <=
- Re: Have GPGPU support in guix?, Fis Trivial, 2018/04/25
- Re: Have GPGPU support in guix?, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/04/26
- Re: Have GPGPU support in guix?, Fis Trivial, 2018/04/26
- Re: Have GPGPU support in guix?, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/04/29
- Re: Have GPGPU support in guix?, Fis Trivial, 2018/04/29
- Re: Have GPGPU support in guix?, Fis Trivial, 2018/04/30
Re: Have GPGPU support in guix?, Ricardo Wurmus, 2018/04/25