Does anyone have any opinions on which version of Ubuntu would be best suited for CUDA?
I hear that versions like 8.10 cause headaches when setting up ( [url=“Walking Randomly » Installing NVIDIA CUDA on Ubuntu 8.10”]Walking Randomly » Installing NVIDIA CUDA on Ubuntu 8.10 ) and that Ubuntu 9.04 hasn’t been properly tested with CUDA yet. I’m planning on installing this on a 64bit Dell Precision T7500 with a 2GB EVGA GTX285 card.
Personally I’d go for 8.04. 8.04 is getting a bit old but it’s very stable. I think it’s something to do with it being a so called “Long Term Support” release. I’ve had CUDA version 2.0 ,1 and 2 working on 8.04 with no problems. CUDA also works fine on my current 64-bit 8.10 set-up although 8.10 itself kinda gets on my nerves…
I can’t agree with that.
8.04 LTS support has been dropped in CUDA 2.3 and the important “out of the box” toolchain and key libraries (like boost, for example) are now out of date enough to cause difficulties with useful CUDA tools. cuda-gdb isn’t supported on anything earlier than 8.10 and Ocelot won’t build on a stock 8.04 LTS install, for example.
I would recommend 9.04. It has been working flawlessly with CUDA 2.3 on my development machine for a while now, and I am yet to find a serious fault. Cuda 2.2 will also work without modification under 9.04.