Joshua Branson writes: > Fis Trivial <ybbs.da...@hotmail.com> writes: > >> Hi Guixs, this is actually a feature wish. >> >> I tried to use guix to manage many of my softwares on my system, but >> some dependencies are missing which is blocking a full transition to >> Guix based system and development environment. Most notably is GPU >> computing support. >> >> My daily routine is doing machine learning, which requires GPU for >> computing nowadays. Currently I need to use CUDA from NVidia, as many of >> you might know, it's not free software, not even an open source >> software. However, it's the de fato toolchain in deep learning >> community, so basically it's a must have dependency for most of the >> related libraries if you want decent performance. Time passes and >> hardwork have been done, now we have some libraries ported to OpenCL or >> HIP (from AMD), it's not mature yet but I think we have a pretty good >> shot at working them out in near future. > > Since this is a GNU endorsed distro, guixSD will never have an official > way to install or use CUDA. There might eventually be an unofficial way > to install it someday via a guile potlock (or is it the guild command). > But I wouldn't recommend using it. No one will seriously test it or > ensure that it works well. >
I want to get rid of CUDA, I am really tired of dealing with it. That's why I'm counting on OpenCL or HIP. >> >> However, I wanted to manage all of these with guix so that we can have a >> unified dependency tree. Currently there are a few options for OpenCL >> runtime. Namely, beignet, neo from Intel, ROCm stack from AMD, the POCL >> project and the implementation in mesa. > > This is probably doable. > >> >> I tried to package beignet (an old OpenCL runtime from Intel) but it >> wasn't successful due to failed tests (it failed from recognizing >> device). >> https://github.com/trivialfis/guixpkgs/blob/master/opencl.scm >> >> To support GPU computing, we need a full stack of softwares, from kernel >> to user space libraries. When it comes to low level part I got have >> litte to no knowledge, so I am hoping someone here can provide some >> help/insight for having GPU computing libraries in Guix. >> >> Thanks. Thanks.