Nouveau Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Achieves OpenCL Support

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Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @01:33PM from the sentience-takes-time dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Nouveau driver project that's been writing an open-source NVIDIA graphics driver via reverse-engineering has moved forward in their support. The Nouveau driver now has OpenCL acceleration support to do GPGPU computing on the open-source community driver for several generations of GeForce GPUs."

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Re:If only... (Score:3, Funny)

by Desler ( 1608317 ) writes: on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @01:52PM (#38956547)

They can't. They license lots of code from companies who wouldn't want the source released. Also, they gain nothing by doing so. The neckbeard market isn't their primary customers.

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Re:If only... (Score:5, Funny)

by X0563511 ( 793323 ) writes: on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @02:00PM (#38956675) Homepage Journal

The neckbeard market
Thanks for that bigoted remark. Most of us are otherwise normal people, you know.

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