Re: Have GPGPU support in guix?

[Joshua Branson]

Tobias Platen <address@hidden> writes:

> On 25.04.2018 19:17, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> I’m currently working on packaging Tensorflow (without GPU support).  I
>> don’t know if Tensorflow with GPU support will work with OpenCL.
> I don't think that any modern GPU will be supported without non-free 
> software. Many of them require blobs for power management and
> instruction scheduling.

That's actually a really good point.  I forgot about that.  Isn't radeon
close to having free drivers?

>
> Tobias Platen
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>> --
>> Ricardo
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