NVIDIA Details CUDA 9 Features, Allows C++14 In Device Code

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA Details CUDA 9 Features, Allows C++14 In Device Code

NVIDIA at their annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC'17) have provided more public details about the forthcoming CUDA 9 compute update...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-CUDA-9-Features

[Pranos]

Nice. And averything will work with the Open Source nouveau driver?
*runsaway*

[GdeR]

Sweet! CUDA 9 seems to be a perfect fit for Debian 9 as it's shipping with both GCC 6.3 and Clang 3.9. Too bad that Debian is not officially supported.. and setting up a different CUDA version from the one in the repo (8.0.44) is a real pain.

[pszilard]

"Nice" Any chance the finally release OpenCL 2.0 support with extensions to support their hw? None.

[tuke81]

"Nice" Any chance the finally release OpenCL 2.0 support with extensions to support their hw? None.

Well yeah it's been in beta for a while and there's only partial support:

https://streamcomputing.eu/blog/2017-03-06/nvidia-beta-support-opencl-2-0-linux/

[Silverthorn]

Hopefully they will fix the regressions they introduced with the release of version 8.

[coder]

Well yeah it's been in beta for a while and there's only partial support:
https://streamcomputing.eu/blog/2017...ncl-2-0-linux/

Wow, I'm impressed they support it at all. I long suspected they had a secret OpenCL implementation they gave to big customers (e.g. automotive) who insisted on it. I guess that could still be true of their Tegra SoCs, which don't advertise any support for OpenCL.

I guess we should all pile in with requests for better compliance.

[pszilard]

God guess. I can't imagine big guns would be willing to put up with the criplleware software stack that NVIDIA's OpenCL is. What makes me still wonder how many do still stick to OpenCL is that all the libraries NVIDIA develops are CUDA only (and I doubt they have the resources to develop them secretly in OpenCL too).