64 bit version of libcuda

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Hi

it there any plan to supply a 64 bit version of libcuda and others ?

Regards
Mark Donszelmann

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Me too!!

I’m a bit surprised even there are no 64bit versions. I’m linking against libraries in a 64bit matlab environment, and require
64bit versions of each library to be available in order to produce a compatible mex file. The problems we are working on
are vast in size so it’s not even an option to downgrade to a cripple 32bit version of matlab. So pretty please get use some of
the magic 64bit potion here.

Cheers, Bart

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In fact I need it for Java on MacOS X. Java 6 only works in 64 bit. Now I need to run in Java 5 (32 bits).

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aaarrrgghh, sorry about my linux-related post. Did not notice I was in the MacOs section.

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CUDA for Mac OS X is 32bit only for now, so you cannot use it from a 64bit program.

We are considering adding a 64bit version

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Is there any way that this might happen in the near future? I’m hitting a wall here.

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[Mac newbie here]

Is Darwin so different from other Linux distros that the current Linux-x64 driver (with CUDA) won’t work?

Thanks!

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it’s not the distro, it is the kernel that is different. And yes it is the linux kernel versus the darwin kernel. Completely different.

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OS X has quite a bit of source compatibility with Linux for user programs. Many programs that work on Linux can be recompiled with few changes on OS X because OS X has nearly all the same standard library functions as Linux. (Nearly all the software I write can be compiled on either platform, including CUDA programs.) OS X has no binary compatibility with Linux at all, however. You cannot take a binary executable compiled for Linux and run it directly on OS X.

And, as E. D. Riedijk points out, OS X has a kernel (“Darwin”) which is as different from Linux as Linux is different from Windows. There is no driver compatibility at all, at the source or binary level.

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Hi,

Any update on this? Is there a rough/preliminary roadmap that includes a 64 bit Mac OS X toolkit release…?

Thanks

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Hi there,

Frankly Nvidia, when there will be 64 bits Mac OSX toolkit? For me 32 bits is not even a option, it’s simply impossible.

Please release it soon!

Alan

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Any update on this? 32 bit isn’t an option for me either.

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bump

Still nothing?

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FYI, there’s an open bug report (568444) regarding this long standing problem.
Unfortunately no details can be displayed right now due to an “unexpected error”…

Cheers

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Bump again.

Any update? Is this something NVidia is planning on doing or not?

/Chris

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We are working on it; it’s just a non-trivial amount of effort.

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Helpful to know your working on it.

Thx,

/Chris

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may we be of any assistance to the dev team to speed up the release ?

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Just wanted to add: Also wanting a 64 bit version here! With Snow Leopard out for half a year, almost everything is switching to 64 bit. MacPorts is partially broken in 32 bit on SL, so that I can only build 64 bit at the moment, but of course no CUDA programs…

Arne