> Date: Friday, February 25, 2011, 8:04 AM
> 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?

Ok, we may have gotten off track a bit. CUDA (and the like) are nice
for heavy lifting to GPUs. You can do this at home at a decent cost (much lower than I did several years ago).

The unofficial CUDA for Solaris port was done 3-4 years ago by John Martin (Oracle). He deserves that credit. No public release on record.

Now comparing the 3.4Ghz Sandy Bridge Core i7-2x00K versus a Nvidia GT 430 computability is kinda like getting into driving cars. Different strokes for different folks.

Back to your question, as said the Sandy Bridge graphics support is  forthcoming but depends on other features/updates to drivers and the libraries.

But for basic computability, you can run with a Sandy Bridge motherboard today with OI_148a/Sol-11x and super compute till your heart's content today! NO updates required.

~ Ken Mays


      
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