Fwd: CUDA and FreeBSD

[Otacilio]

Em 08/10/2017 21:35, Artem Belevich escreveu:
> Your question is rather vague. Could you elaborate on what exactly you 
> have in mind?
>
> Last time I checked, linux CUDA programs did run under linuxulator. 
> It's been a while, though.
>
> Getting native CUDA binaries to compiler/run on FreeBSD is somewhat 
> more complicated.
> CUDA SDK does not support freebsd, so you can't use nvcc to compile 
> any CUDA binaries on FreeBSD.
> Recent Clang (~5.0 or newer) is capable of compiling CUDA programs, so 
> getting it to compile CUDA source to an object file on FreeBSD should 
> not be particularly hard. However, you would not be able to link 
> anything that relies on standard CUDA features (e.g. using 
> foo<<<..>>>() syntax to launch a kernel or using many cudaXXXX() 
> calls) as they depend on libcudart and NVidia does not provide it for 
> FreeBSD. You would need to write your own replacement for the CUDA 
> runtime which would use raw driver API under the hood. It's somewhat 
> complicated by the fact that the API provided by libcudart for 
> compiler use is largely undocumented.
>
> You also can't use cuBLAS, cuFFT, cuDNN, etc, because NVidia does not 
> provide those for FreeBSD, either. :-( That rules FreeBSD out for 
> things like GPU support in Tensorflow.
>
> --Artem
>
> On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 5:41 AM, Otacílio <otacilio.neto at bsd.com.br 
> <mailto:otacilio.neto at bsd.com.br>> wrote:
>
>     What are the issues that prevent programs using CUDA from running
>     on FreeBSD?
>
>     []'s
>
>     -Otacilio
>

Thank you so much for your answer. It was just this overview I was 
looking for.

[]'s
-Otacilio