From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tobias Platen Subject: Re: Have GPGPU support in guix? Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 20:04:04 +0200 Message-ID: <2e8cf2af-7a98-b099-d714-dbeb701c11eb@platen-software.de> References: <87sh7jtdc0.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43009) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBOm4-0006Sm-FK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 14:04:13 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBOlz-0007zL-FE for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 14:04:12 -0400 Received: from v2201304502512175.yourvserver.net ([37.221.197.247]:46759 helo=v220100350252766.yourvserver.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBOlz-0007yB-8G for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 14:04:07 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.22] (pD9E9D117.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.233.209.23]) by v220100350252766.yourvserver.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E46251404F8 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 20:01:30 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87sh7jtdc0.fsf@elephly.net> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org 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=E2=80=99m currently working on packaging Tensorflow (without GPU supp= ort). I > don=E2=80=99t know if Tensorflow with GPU support will work with OpenCL= . I don't think that any modern GPU will be supported without non-free=20 software. Many of them require blobs for power management and=20 instruction scheduling. Tobias Platen > > -- > Ricardo > > >