Russian Super-Computing Users Get Tired Of Catalyst, Start Looking At Open-Source AMD

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Russian Super-Computing Users Get Tired Of Catalyst, Start Looking At Open-Source AMD

Super-computing researchers part of the Institute of System Research for the Russian Academy of Sciences recently presented on using the open-source Radeon driver for OpenCL...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NIISI-Open-AMD-Results

[chuckula]

We are making for New Soviet Socialist Drivers!
Having More Vodka, More Putin, less of Bugs!

[chrisr]

Sigh, the last bullet point on the presentation:

In general: something works in current runtime version, but either will not work or works significantly slower in new version.

I hear you, Bro! I can't begin to describe how much happier I am with my "Open Source" AMD experience than I ever was with Catalyst. It's truly tragic to learn that it's the same old story with Catalyst OpenCL as it once was with OpenGL.

[Klassic Six]

OpenCL benchmarks carried out by the organization show that the Catalyst Linux driver with the "clpeak" test is 4% to 58% faster than the current Mesa stack. With an OpenCL FFT Radix7 benchmark, the Catalyst driver is 40% to 237% faster than Mesa.

So in some ways they both suck! that's....new? And yet dear Linus Torvalds give nVidia a middle finger. Mesa is much better than fglrx, at least it's not buggy as fglrx but come on for example Tonga support for OpenGL 4.x depends on LLVM 3.8+ and all the FPS and shading problem in commercial games which sucks.

[chuckula]

" And yet dear Linus Torvalds give nVidia a middle finger. "

Many people -- especially the ones who live in a universe where they think AMD invented Linux -- take what Linus did out of context. He wasn't complaining about the quality of Nvidia's driver stack. In fact, Torvalds has been known to use Nvidia hardware in at least some of his own systems.

Instead, he was complaining about his working relationship with Nvidia doing kernel development. Which is a fair complaint, but at the same time AMD is far from perfect in that regard too, and at least Nvidia's commercial drivers work more often than not.

[Klassic Six]

" And yet dear Linus Torvalds give nVidia a middle finger. "

Many people -- especially the ones who live in a universe where they think AMD invented Linux -- take what Linus did out of context. He wasn't complaining about the quality of Nvidia's driver stack. In fact, Torvalds has been known to use Nvidia hardware in at least some of his own systems.

Instead, he was complaining about his working relationship with Nvidia doing kernel development. Which is a fair complaint, but at the same time AMD is far from perfect in that regard too, and at least Nvidia's commercial drivers work more often than not.

I know that and AMD invented Linux? Are you high or something? What the problem if we have the quality and they won't contribute to open source community as much as Linus wants?

[Azrael5]

We are making for New Soviet Socialist Drivers!
Having More Vodka, More Putin, less of Bugs!

their is no longer soviet since many years. I hope in the russians support because their knowledge could help linux systems to improve a lot.

[utack]

Nvidia's commercial drivers work more often than not.

But you are in very deep crap if they don't feel like it in one situation.

[Daktyl198]

Let's just hope that since the Radeon Group has separated from the rest of AMD and has their own (FOSS) agendas now, the FOSS drivers will get more attention than ever before. OpenCL doesn't seem to be where they're focusing right now however; more towards stability and hardware features, which admittedly is better for MOST users.

[kernelOfTruth]

Well, old conditioned bogeyman images are hard to get rid off - and it's always the bad Russian,

never the opposite or other sides,

which is kind of weird if you think about it.

Anyway - why not work together for the greater good like in "Pacific Rim",

let's declare poverty, famine, slow progress on the technological sector our Kaijus (haha - loved that movie)