Re: GPU support in BART
Hi Martin,
On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 07:54:22AM +0000, Uecker, Martin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to activate GPU support in the Debian package
> for the BART toolbox, but I am not sure what is the
> best way to approach this.
>
> There may be several options:
>
> We can provide an additional package which can be
> installed alternatively, e.g. bart-gpu and which
> provides a CUDA-enabled binary and conflicts with
> the regular package. But I wonder whether this would
> make all bart packages non-free? Or do we need
> two separate source packages?
You need a separate source package. May be you use the
relion package as example. Its the same there.
> Maybe there is a way to compile and link
> against CUDA with requiring the presence of the
> dynamic library of run-time. We could then
> dlopen the library at run-time if it is
> present. But the compilation would then
> still depend on a non-free package.
As long as the build process needs something from
non-free the (source!) package has to go to contrib.
> We could try to move GPU backend into a module
> which can be loaded at run-time and which is
> then packaged separately. But this would
> require some development effort.
I *personally* would prefer this (but I do not have
any idea about the effort to implement it).
> Maybe you have some recommendations? Or you can
> recommend a package to look at as an example?
See above relion.
Hope this helps
Andreas.
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