Thread 'Cuda or OpenCL?'

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ProDigit Send message Joined: 8 Nov 19 Posts: 718	Message 94093 - Posted: 8 Dec 2019, 14:52:54 UTC Last modified: 8 Dec 2019, 14:53:05 UTC Nvidia RTX/GTX GPUs, on Ubuntu 18.04/19.10: Is installing CUDA beneficial for Boinc, or should I just stay with Nvidia OpenCL from the driver package? ID: 94093 ·
Richard Haselgrove Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5128	Message 94096 - Posted: 8 Dec 2019, 15:01:34 UTC - in response to Message 94093.   It depends on the project. Some write their applications in CUDA, some write them in Open CL, some write them in both (different applications, obviously). BOINC handles both, so you'd be safest installing both. But I believe there's some doubt about OpenCL compatibility for some drivers at some projects... ID: 94096 ·
ProDigit Send message Joined: 8 Nov 19 Posts: 718	Message 94212 - Posted: 12 Dec 2019, 2:17:28 UTC - in response to Message 94096.   It depends on the project. Some write their applications in CUDA, some write them in Open CL, some write them in both (different applications, obviously). BOINC handles both, so you'd be safest installing both. But I believe there's some doubt about OpenCL compatibility for some drivers at some projects... Will CUDA interfere with OpenCL tasks? I remember folding in the early days of CUDA, and some projects were slowed down on a GPU that was sharing data from a task from another GPU. It wasn't working very efficient back then (on windows). I don't know if in Linux nowadays most of these issues are resolved? ID: 94212 ·
robsmith Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 25 May 09 Posts: 1301	Message 94215 - Posted: 12 Dec 2019, 8:36:19 UTC It all depends on how well the two applications have been written and how they manage memory and other GPU resources - generally they work quite well together but with a slight performance hit over two of the same. ID: 94215 ·

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