CUDA FOR MAC IS COMING SOON

Pierre Poulin
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I just want to share with all Mac/Nvidia users that CUDA for Einstein@home is coming soon...

 

https://einsteinathome.org/content/new-einsteinhome-radio-pulsar-search-and-nvidia-gpu-code?page=2

Ian&Steve C.
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That post is from 10 years

That post is from 10 years ago...

 

and Apple has given up on nvidia support and don’t support nvidia cards in the most recent versions of MacOS. 

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Pierre Poulin
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..."Submitted on 20 Jan 2011

..."Submitted on 20 Jan 2011 15:57:08 UTC "

 

Frak !  My brain read 2021 !!!

 

Sorry

Pierre Poulin
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Do you know why it failed if

Do you know why it failed if CUDA was supposed to be so much faster ?

Ian&Steve C.
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The devs most likely didn’t

The devs most likely didn’t have the free time to finish development. CUDA is definitely faster. 
 

but as far as MacOS goes, CUDA is no longer an option anyway, Apple dropped support for nvidia. It’s out of their hands. 

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Pierre Poulin
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I run my 2 Nvidia 1070s on

I run my 2 Nvidia 1070s on High Sierra with purge-wrangler script to enable TB2

and it works great.

Thanks for the info.

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