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[Srimal Jayawardena <srimalj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks.

Since NVIDIA does not have linux drivers for Optimus cards,

is it possible to do CUDA with the Generic / OpenSource drivers?

Cheers

Srimal.

On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Find here the Ubuntu 10.10 installation instructions for cuda on
> Linux:https://github.com/run4flat/perl_nvcc/wiki/Installing
>
> It's more than a year old, so it may not work...
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Alexandre Saint <snt.alex@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 2011/12/16 David Overcash <funnylookinhat@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>> If you want to play it safe, just get a laptop with a discrete graphics card
>>> and no onboard graphics.  If you try to use Optimus with any CUDA based
>>> work, you'll have to do quite a bit of work on top of what you're already
>>> programming to get things to turn out well.  :)
>>>
>> What extra bit of work are you referring to? The installation of
>> Bumblebee or Ironhide?
>> I plan to develop OpenCL programs in the near future on my Optimus
>> equipped laptop. I'm using Ironhide to gain access to the gpu. Though
>> I didn't try to set up the OpenCL environment yet, any feedback in
>> that direction would be very welcome.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alexandre
>>
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