On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 3:21 AM, Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Am I missing something here?  Does any other production vendor supply GPU
> compute engine cards but Nvidia?      Are any GPU compute cards fully
> supported (including any additional interconnects beyond PCI) using fully
> open source drivers and compilers/application support generators/libraries?
> To use the Nvidia GPU compute cards under CUDA, it appears that the Nvidia
> proprietary driver is necessary.
>
> Yasha Karant

Nvidia has been playing nasty games with kernel and driver licensing
for a long time.  Actually read the installer. It plays fascinating,
and unstable, games with the OpenGL drivers as well as the kernel. The
results work, sort of, when first run, but the elrepo wrappers for
those drives are usually much more effective and stable. Look in the
elrepo repository for examples of better installers.