From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joshua Branson Subject: Re: Have GPGPU support in guix? Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 18:25:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87sh7jtdc0.fsf@elephly.net> <2e8cf2af-7a98-b099-d714-dbeb701c11eb@platen-software.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57920) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBSp2-0004PA-8a for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 18:23:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBSox-0007ov-BC for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 18:23:32 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:45469) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBSox-0007oj-42 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 18:23:27 -0400 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CEF32115B for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 18:23:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dobby (unknown [72.12.220.132]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 0BE721025C for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 18:23:26 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <2e8cf2af-7a98-b099-d714-dbeb701c11eb@platen-software.de> (Tobias Platen's message of "Wed, 25 Apr 2018 20:04:04 +0200") 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 Tobias Platen 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=E2=80=99m currently working on packaging Tensorflow (without GPU suppo= rt). 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 soft= ware. 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 >> >> -- >> Ricardo >> >> >>