art3mis Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 (edited) For the Ubuntu distro I am running, in the PPA list, I see a number of CUDA related libraries https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/xenial/amd64?text=nVidia Is there any advantage in terms of Houdini, in installing any of these? In particular, the CUDA Dev Toolkit. Edited January 9, 2017 by art3mis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
symek Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 Unless you intend to develop CUDA based plugins for Houdini, there is no reason to install any of these. CUDA libs are part of NVIDIA driver installation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeiamyourfather Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 2 hours ago, art3mis said: Is there any advantage in terms of Houdini, in installing any of these? No, Houdini doesn't use CUDA. A few features use OpenCL though but that's part of the driver already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
art3mis Posted January 9, 2017 Author Share Posted January 9, 2017 Ok thanks! BTW, Luke thanks for your Linux support here. Very happy with the extra performance and stability I am seeing in Ubuntu over Windows 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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