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CUDA standard with Windows ?
Hello,
I just read a somewhat older posting that OpenCL/nvidia drivers would come standard with Windows 7, is this indeed true ? Further question: Does windows 7 come with cuda drivers ? If not will windows 8 come with cuda drivers ? ^ For software developers this is a bit interesting, less software to distribute if it comes pre-installed. Bye, Skybuck. |
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CUDA standard with Windows ?
"Skybuck Flying" wrote in message b.home.nl... Hello, I just read a somewhat older posting that OpenCL/nvidia drivers would come standard with Windows 7, is this indeed true ? Further question: Does windows 7 come with cuda drivers ? If not will windows 8 come with cuda drivers ? ^ For software developers this is a bit interesting, less software to distribute if it comes pre-installed. Bye, Skybuck. A 10 second Bing...... http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_directcompute.html Chris |
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CUDA standard with Windows ?
"Chris S." wrote in message ... "Skybuck Flying" wrote in message b.home.nl... Hello, I just read a somewhat older posting that OpenCL/nvidia drivers would come standard with Windows 7, is this indeed true ? Further question: Does windows 7 come with cuda drivers ? If not will windows 8 come with cuda drivers ? ^ For software developers this is a bit interesting, less software to distribute if it comes pre-installed. Bye, Skybuck. A 10 second Bing...... Hm.. I'll take your word for it... I had so many webbrowsers open didn't dare to risk losing them again because of bad websites. Probably didn't even think of googling/binging it... it happens ! =D http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_directcompute.html However this website does not seem to answer my question. Direct Compute is Microsoft's own CUDA and I think it's different from NVIDIA's CUDA... not sure though. DirectCompute API versus CUDA API ?!? ^ Two different things ? Bye, Skybuck. |
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CUDA standard with Windows ?
On May 22, 3:17*am, "Skybuck Flying" wrote:
"Chris S." wrote in message ... - Direct Compute is Microsoft's own CUDA and I think it's different from - - NVIDIA's CUDA... not sure though. - I am not at all into any of this, but reading about it I became convinced that you are mixing up the two concepts: DirectCompute is not another version of CUDA - CUDA is a Chip technology and DirectComputing is the API for programming such a chip. They belong together - they would be completely useless without each other, but different concepts. If you know about terms like High and Low level language, you will see that these are levels of abstraction away from the chip - I am sure we all remember the days when everybody tried to beat everybody else over the head with their own 'new' application that was often referred to as being developed by way of programming some device 'directly' (i.e.) by subverting the BIOS of that device. It could always be shown to be fast, but sadly not a very stable way of handling things, because everybody had to invent the soup-bowl from scratch every time. So now, it would seem, we are still being beat over the head by a completely new level of abstraction that might actually turn out to be useful. High level Programming Language using a layer of abstraction that is designed to give Low level instruction to a chip that is designed to specifically execute such instructions (perhaps not using any BIOS support at all?) Then probably co-operating with a standard partner-chip that supposedly is relaying on its BIOS.? Gee, Skybuck, I also don't realy know, but this I am sure of, we are dealing with a special sort of API (really a CPI) designed to instruct a special sort of chip. So, different concepts altogether. Tony. . . |
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CUDA standard with Windows ?
Well to start with nvidia fails to explain what CUDA stands for in their
documents. But I did see it during a presentation and it's also on wikipedia. It stands for something like: Compute Unified Device Architecture or something. But that name is misleading. CUDA is by now many things, it's an architecture that spans hardware and software. It's an piece of hardware/device It's a driver. It's an instruction set also called ptx. It's an API. It's a high level language. Ofcourse I am referring to the CUDA API/runtime libraries. Like cudart.dll Which seems to stand for: cuda runtime dynamic link library. And I am wondering if it will be supplied standard with windows. It's like opengl32.dll. Perhaps also some drivers (which might be needed for cudart.dll) for graphics cards. Bye, Skybuck. |
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CUDA standard with Windows ?
"Skybuck Flying" wrote in message
. home.nl... And I am wondering if it will be supplied standard with windows. It's like opengl32.dll. Perhaps also some drivers (which might be needed for cudart.dll) for graphics cards. Bye, Skybuck. I think NV includes OpenCL/CUDA with their drivers. The drivers MS provides with Windows and on Windows Update may not have them but only noobs use those. AMD recently started bundling OpenCL in the Catalyst Suit. MS might include Intel's/AMD's driver for OpenCL (and CUDA when the x86 port is done) on CPU but those probably will be to slow to be useful. |
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CUDA standard with Windows ?
"Jim" wrote in message ... "Skybuck Flying" wrote in message . home.nl... And I am wondering if it will be supplied standard with windows. It's like opengl32.dll. Perhaps also some drivers (which might be needed for cudart.dll) for graphics cards. Bye, Skybuck. I think NV includes OpenCL/CUDA with their drivers. The drivers MS provides with Windows and on Windows Update may not have them but only noobs use those. AMD recently started bundling OpenCL in the Catalyst Suit. MS might include Intel's/AMD's driver for OpenCL (and CUDA when the x86 port is done) on CPU but those probably will be to slow to be useful. Interesting, I have been running SETI at home and the later release's will run on the Nvidia GPU's, or at least crunch numbers on them. Might want to look that up for more info. Looks like they off load some tasks on the GPU thru OpenCL. And I just have a lowly 9400GT nvidia card. Cheers |
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