Radeon ROCm 3.1 Released With RAS For Vega 7nm, SLURM Support

[bridgman]

I’m sorry to interrupt all these philosophical conversations but what‘s the way to go to get OpenCL on Linux for a bunch of Vega 56 GPUs? Do we need to use Vulkan or get ridiculously overpriced Nvidia?

Four options:

- install the packaged AMDGPU drivers (PRO or all-open) including optional OpenCL if your distro is supported

- use a reasonably recent upstream driver install and add the optional OpenCL userspace package on top

- install the packaged ROCM stack if your distro is supported

- use a reasonably recent upstream driver install and add the ROCm userspace components on top

Which distro(s) are you using ?

[bridgman]

so maybe the first step is to ask your pro/premium customers what kind of old-buggy low-volume app they use... with this "List" we maybe find a solution.

A lot of them are proprietary in-house CAD systems, originally developed for Unix and ported to Linux over the years. Some of them are quite large and basically run the engineering and manufacturing parts of the businesses. The rest are the "big old classic" CAD apps that haven't necessarily changed that much themselves but have ever-growing ecosystems built around them.

They are only "low volume" in the sense that the workstation/CAD sector is smaller than other sectors.

Anything small & simple was usually replaced long ago, unfortunately most commonly with Windows apps.

[cb88]

A lot of them are proprietary in-house CAD systems, originally developed for Unix and ported to Linux over the years. Some of them are quite large and basically run the engineering and manufacturing parts of the businesses. The rest are the "big old classic" CAD apps that haven't necessarily changed that much themselves but have ever-growing ecosystems built around them.

They are only "low volume" in the sense that the workstation/CAD sector is smaller than other sectors.

Anything small & simple was usually replaced long ago, unfortunately most commonly with Windows apps.

Unfortunately the mac daddy of big CAD software Siemens NX no longer runs in a graphical mode on Linux... very sad for people needing it that also want to not run Windows.

Solidworks which is pretty much the standard fair these days... doesn't and has never ran on *nix.

[qarium]

A lot of them are proprietary in-house CAD systems, originally developed for Unix and ported to Linux over the years. Some of them are quite large and basically run the engineering and manufacturing parts of the businesses. The rest are the "big old classic" CAD apps that haven't necessarily changed that much themselves but have ever-growing ecosystems built around them.
They are only "low volume" in the sense that the workstation/CAD sector is smaller than other sectors.
Anything small & simple was usually replaced long ago, unfortunately most commonly with Windows apps.

thank you. i really think a future planing agency could care about this in near future.
and my Opinion is really: write all this stuff NEW in FLOSS
sure right now they are the one with big money and as you told that they even pay linux development and so one

But this situation could change with global future planing agency.

all old and classic and in-house whatsoever a future proof society could not have an interest in this way to go.