Re: Quick Poll: Debian to better support hardware acceleration?

[Sam Thompson <sam@thompsonpurdy.com>]

I've had a massive faff with ROCm, and on my main workstation have been compelled to use a different distro that makes things easier. Definite preference for option 2.

Previous job was academic research, everything was CUDA. Now I'm in industrial R&D, and I run into whatever my customers want me to use, which has been a mixture of CUDA and ROCm. With some practice and tinkering, CUDA can be made to play nicely.

Sam

On Fri, 21 May 2021 at 15:27, Thomas Schiex <thomas.schiex@inrae.fr> wrote:

I'm a computer scientist working in AI and structural biology. I'm sorry
to say that CUDA has slowly invaded a lot of our scientific pipelines,
for Deep learning, convex optimization and molecular simulations.

I just could not vote for option 2 even if option 1 is tolerable (I'm
using it).

Le 21/05/2021 à 15:35, Julien Puydt a écrit :
> Le vendredi 21 mai 2021 à 04:40 +0000, M. Zhou a écrit :
>> Q: How far should Debian go along the way for supporting hardware
>> acceleration solutions like CUDA?
>>
>> Choice 1: this game belongs to the big companies. we should offload
>> such burden to third-party providers such as Anaconda.
>> Choice 2: we may try to provide what the users need.
>> Choice 3: <write down yours>
> I'm not a user of anything like it (as far as I know...), but it's
> Debian's mission to make useful software available : choice 2.
>
> JP
>