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Message-ID: <5072E0C3.50907@gentoo.org>
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 10:18:43 -0400
From: "Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" <zerochaos@...too.org>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CUDA tweaking to your actual GPU

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On 10/08/2012 03:58 AM, Lukas Odzioba wrote:
> 2012/10/6 magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>:
>> - The OpenCL support for nvidia automatically picks your actual architecture so will likely have similar goods and bads. It's probably possible to pick an arch per format, if we want to.
> 
> Actually we can do the same by compiling N kernels (each for different
> sm) and choosing "most appropriate" - predefined for pair <GPU
> name/format> or GPU arch if we do not have such data.

As a distro maintain I think this is a FANTASTIC idea. I would love to
be able build kernels for all supported opencl levels, or one, or
anything in between.

Thanks,
Zero
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