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List:       opensolaris-discuss
Subject:    Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post
From:       John Martin <john.m.martin () oracle ! com>
Date:       2011-02-25 13:04:01
Message-ID: 4D67A8C1.4060109 () oracle ! com
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On 02/25/11 04:23 AM, Orvar Korvar wrote:
> I dont have a cluster or specialized hardware at home, to do heavy calculations. I \
> can buy Nvidia card to do calculations,  but Solaris does not support OpenCL nor \
> CUDA nor anything similar - as far as I know. To use graphic cards to do heavy \
> calculation I need to switch OS to Linux with OpenCL, which is not an option. 
> A question: If I buy Nvidia graphic card, and install Windows in VirtualBox \
> together with 3D support - could I use OpenCL / CUDA / whatever in the Windows VM?

Not in a Windows guest.

Parallels Workstation Extreme supports a GPU dedicated to a guest,
but the software alone is expensive.  Submit an enhancement request
for VirtualBox.
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