Any word on getting this to work on NVIDIA cards? From what I understand it's because the nvidia cards don't support opencl 1.2 (yet?). Any potential workarounds on windows or linux?
NVIDIA is poor at doing anything GPGPU.
Wha..?! No way! NVIDIA has a huge advantage over AMD in many aspects. Just look at how well their software works compared w/AMD's. You still need an X server running to do computation with AMD GPUs and that totally blows.
NVIDIA made a poor (IMO) strategic decision by abandoning OCL but you still have to give them the credit for creating it! I think they were afraid to abandon their early adopter CUDA customers and decided they didn't have the throughput to support both.
I think eventually they'll reverse their position on OCL. But to a lot of folks doing GPGPU they don't care about OCL and they're using CUDA and loving it. So it's not fair to say "NVIDIA is poor at doing anything GPGPU" IMO.
OpenCL Trademarks belong to Apple Corp. I dont think Nvidia made OpenCL.
They might be good at GPGPU, but only on the GPU's that specialize in it. ie. Their tesla series. The consumer GPU's they make aren't as good.. but they are also the vast majority.
Idk.
All I know is that the GPGPU software I've seen out there runs tons faster on ATI cards than it does on NVIDIA cards.