Re: Have GPGPU support in guix?

[Tobias Platen]

On 25.04.2018 19:17, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I tried to use guix to manage many of my softwares on my system, but
> > some dependencies are missing which is blocking a full transition to
> > Guix based system and development environment. Most notably is GPU
> > computing support.
> >
> > My daily routine is doing machine learning, which requires GPU for
> > computing nowadays.
>
> I’m currently working on packaging Tensorflow (without GPU support).  I
> don’t know if Tensorflow with GPU support will work with OpenCL.
I don't think that any modern GPU will be supported without non-free 
software. Many of them require blobs for power management and 
instruction scheduling.

Tobias Platen
> --
> Ricardo