Re: nVIDIA cuBLAS and GNU Octave

[José Luis García Pallero]

2012/12/23 Markus Bergholz <address@hidden>:
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> On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 7:35 PM, José Luis García Pallero
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>> 2012/12/23 John W. Eaton <address@hidden>:
>> > On 23-Dec-2012, Markus Bergholz wrote:
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>> > | only work if you have a cuda card and driver!), or one day the Cuda
>> > stuff and
>> > | licence gets tolareted by Octave developers.
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>> > Octave's license isn't going to change, so I don't think we have a
>> > choice to someday "tolerate" a non-free, GPL-incompatible license.
>> > I'm not interested in linking Octave with non-free software, or
>> > encouraging people to do so.  What we need is to have software that
>> > does the job of working with the GPU that is distributed under terms
>> > that are compatible with the GPL.
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>> I totally agree with this.
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>> One solution could be, for example, to use ViennaCL
>> (http://viennacl.sourceforge.net/). There is distributed under MIT
>> license, that is compatible with the GPL. It contains an
>> implementation if BLAS and some matrix decompositions in OpenCL. But
>> it has a problem (or I think it is a problem): is possible to use
>> OpenCL code without using non-free software? About the library
>> implementation, exists pocl (http://pocl.sourceforge.net/), but AFAIK
>> only produces code for CPUs. An the last problem is: is possible to
>> run code in a GPU without the privative drivers?
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> With the Open AMD Driver, yes/soon :D
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> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTEwMjU

Sounds fantastic! xD

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