On 05/20/10 11:55 AM, Kumar, Shree wrote:
>> I hope you will extend your support to more platforms, beside Gnu/Linux.
>> (OpenSolaris, BSDs etc)
>>     
> It is too early to say anything about this. Testing software on clusters
> of these would be a whole lot of effort - so anybody trying to use VizStack
> on such systems will have to be involved.
>  
>   
>> And why (oh why) you are stranded yourself only on Nvidia chips shore ?
>>
>> That is problem that seems to be intentionally put in inside underlying
>> components.
>> If you use OpenCL, you could use all comutational power and Including
>> Nvidia and AMD (cheaper per speed) GPUs and other processing CPUs available.
>>     
> That's because the developers use nVidia cards. nVidia drivers provide a 
> consistent 
> interface to all their GPUs, and we use that. The API provided by VizStack 
> tries 
> to be vendor-agnostic, and relies only on concepts rather than actual 
> implementations 
> (e.g. "GPU Combiner" rather than "SLI"). 
>
> The tool that generates the X configuration files is where most of the nvidia 
> specific logic resides. 
>
> All said, I do not believe that VizStack should be limited to nVidia chips 
> only.
> If anybody is interested to add support for other cards (ATI, for example), 
> I'd 
> welcome that - and aid it too ! 
>
> However, note that adding such support is a significant amount of work - 
> VizStack
> has a much more capable core than what it shows on the outside; we are hoping 
> to
> add support for more applications over time.
>
> Regards
>   
Thank you for your nice response ;)

Just one more comment.
Would not using OpenCL help with portability?
Or I am mistaken and X configuration files are main place for that, like
you were saying.
Thank you! ;)


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