CUDA Toolkit 3.0 released gentoo Portage ebuild linux installation kits

The linux gentoo portage installation has CUDA 3.0 kits.
It is currently “masked” but seems ok so far.

I have been running CUDA 2.3 and went through the following steps to upgrade to 3.0
(doubtless there are other ways too)
emerge --sync
ebuild /usr/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-195.36.15.ebuild fetch
ebuild /usr/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-195.36.15.ebuild merge
ebuild /usr/portage/dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit/nvidia-cuda-toolkit-3.0.ebuild fetch
ebuild /usr/portage/dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit/nvidia-cuda-toolkit-3.0.ebuild merge
ebuild /usr/portage/dev-util/nvidia-cuda-sdk/nvidia-cuda-sdk-3.0.ebuild fetch
ebuild /usr/portage/dev-util/nvidia-cuda-sdk/nvidia-cuda-sdk-3.0.ebuild merge

modprobe -r nvidia
eselect opengl set nvidia

/opt/cuda/lib/libcudart.so.2 had disappeared (the README suggests libcudrt is not really supported)
however I have rebuilt my executable with libcutil_i386.a instead. This is slightly slower on a GTX 295
which thinks it is two GPUs, so it may be the way I am doing threading on the host to use both GPUs
and does not affect others.

                        Thank you

                            Bill

    Dr. W. B. Langdon, 
    Department of Computer Science,
    King's College London,
    Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK
    [url="http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/W.Langdon/"]http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/W.Langdon/[/url]

FOGA 2011 [url=“FOGA 2011 - Foundations of Genetic Algorithms XI”]http://www.sigevo.org/foga-2011/[/url]
CIGPU 2010 [url=“http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/external/W.Langdon/cigpu”]http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/external/W.Langdon/cigpu[/url]
A Field Guide to Genetic Programming
[url=“http://www.gp-field-guide.org.uk/”]http://www.gp-field-guide.org.uk/[/url]
RNAnet [url=“http://bioinformatics.essex.ac.uk/users/wlangdon/rnanet”]http://bioinformatics.essex.ac.uk/users/wlangdon/rnanet[/url]
GP EM [url=“Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines | Home”]http://www.springer.com/10710[/url]
GP Bibliography [url=“The Genetic Programming Bibliography”]http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/[/url]

I add that I’ve been using 3.0 on Gentoo since the beta in a production environment, works well.

Is there any reason for your rather complicated upgrade procedure with ebuild?
emerge -u nvidia-cuda-sdk
would do it.

“A Field Guide to Genetic Programming” is a great book.

Many thanks

Bill

ps: the book’s free via http://www.gp-field-guide.org.uk/

Hmm I tried emerge -u nvidia-cuda-toolkit

today expecting to install 3.1 but panicked and aborted it

when emerge appeared to be loading CUDA 2.3.

I have installed CUDA 3.1 (nvidia-drivers-256.35)

using separate fetch and merge as for 3.0 above.

Bill

Dr. W. B. Langdon,

    Department of Computer Science, 

    King's College London,

    Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK

    <a target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='"http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/W.Langdon/"'>http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/W.Langdon/</a>

Moving to UCL soon

FOGA 2011 http://www.sigevo.org/foga-2011/

CIGPU 2010 http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/W.Langdon/cigpu

A Field Guide to Genetic Programming

                   <a target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='"http://www.gp-field-guide.org.uk/"'>http://www.gp-field-guide.org.uk/</a>

RNAnet http://bioinformatics.essex.ac.uk/users/wlangdon/rnanet

GP EM http://www.springer.com/10710

GP Bibliography http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/