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radiance wrote:
Hi,

I cannot commit to an ATI version being delivered for our current v1.0 licenses at this time.

Radiance

And still, there are people who don't have CUDA compliant GPU, buying the license Even if my current ATI powered iMac will never run octane and I will need to grab new gear to stick my nose in it, it is worth buying. First, as a act of supporting development of this great technology which clearly is The Future and second, I have a feeling in my bones that we may witness the miracle of CUDA on ATI in the future.

Take care, Lu2

People please stop dreaming about CUDA on ATI cards. Between an ATI GPU and nvidia GPU there are absolutely nothing in common, their architectures are totally different and so the software is different. CUDA was invented by nvidia, it was written by nvidia, is licensed to nvidia and it was made to run on nvidia GPU. Same thing with ATi Stream which is a CUDA equivalence to ATi GPU. Why do you think nvidia will do a special CUDA for ATI GPU to let ATi grow in the market share and vice versa. No company in this world will never to something good for their competitor to let them grow. Competition must stay competition and that's the way it is. . The only cods that will run on both architectures is OpenCL or DirectX Compute.

About the Apple hardware policy. I used to be a big Apple fanboy until they start to make macs with ATi GPU. Why in the world they do that? Why they don't let me chose a GPU for my needs, nvidia or ATi, depends on everybody needs. I think they make wrong step .

From http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2 ... 555,00.asp

Many have thought that CUDA is proprietary, and will only ever work on Nvidia's GPUs. This is not entirely true.

Though it has been submitted to no outside standards body, it is in fact completely free to download the specs and write CUDA apps, and even completely free to write a CUDA driver to allow your company's hardware (CPU, GPU, whatever) to run apps written in the CUDA environment.

Nvidia "owns" and controls the future of CUDA, so it's not open in the "open source" definition, but it's certainly free. Nvidia tells us it would be thrilled for ATI to develop a CUDA driver for their GPUs.

@Marius3D, it's certainly possible to have CUDA running on ATI cards and it's probably much better than OpenCL right now.

July 3, 2008 -By Jason Cross I think this say much, 2 years old and nothing happened.

Nvidia tells us it would be thrilled for ATI to develop a CUDA driver for their GPUs.

And that is called Stream and it was made to run on vectorial GPU from ATi.