Re: Have GPGPU support in guix?

[Joshua Branson <jbranso@fastmail.com>]

Fis Trivial <ybbs.daans@hotmail.com> writes:

> Joshua Branson writes:
>
>> Fis Trivial <ybbs.daans@hotmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hi Guixs, this is actually a feature wish.
>>>
>>> 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.  There might eventually be an unofficial way
>> to install it someday via a guile potlock (or is it the guild command).
>> But I wouldn't recommend using it.  No one will seriously test it or
>> ensure that it works well.
>>
>
> I want to get rid of CUDA, I am really tired of dealing with it. That's
> why I'm counting on OpenCL or HIP.

Ok. cool!  I'm not sure that Nvidia is currently supporting the later
versions of openCL. Kind of sad really.