Re: GSoC 2014 | CUDA

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 07:29 -0800, Faiz I. Kothari wrote:
> I know the licensing issues caused by using CUDA, but Nvidia
> supports OpenCL too, so there shouldn't be any licensing problems.

The licensing problems aren't about what interface is used, but
whether there is a free license for it or not. It does not help us if
they have an OpenCL implementation if it's also non-free. As far as I
know, there is no usable free CUDA or OpenCL implementation. Do you
know of one?

> Since GPGPU is a very emerging field and simulations are very
> compute intensive tasks,

it is therefore very important to have a free implementation of a GPU
runtime.

If you are interested in this problem, please work on that before
you're dazzled by the shiny non-free toys that nvidia et al are
peddling. A gilded cage is still a cage.

- Jordi G. H.