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Reminds me a lot of Nvidia buying Portland Group, although that was probably a better match. I don't really see this making much difference - what AMD needs in
by m_mueller 10y ago
Reminds me a lot of Nvidia buying Portland Group, although that was probably a better match. I don't really see this making much difference - what AMD needs in HPC is tooling for their GPU/APU that covers a wide range of usecases, is stable and performant. Publications and then sales pretty much follow automatically, but IMO so far the tooling was the missing element. E.g. where's my Fortran API for OpenCL and Nvidia? How do I debug and profile this? What about device memory aware MPI wrappers? BLAS on device? Etc.
Allinea AFAIK only helps with the debugging/profiling part - but first you need a sensible programming model.
- ginko 10y agoThis is about ARM, not AMD.
- m_mueller 10y agoDangit, so much news about AMD lately ;). Funnily enough my comment still applies (I think).
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- guitarbill 10y agoI think they know this, e.g. they opened a new office in Manchester (UK), and LinkedIn suggests the location is for HPC and tooling. I'm guessing Allinea makes sense as they're also in the UK. It might be an acquihire thing, instead of specific tooling. The Manchester location took a while to set up, it's still growing and still looking for people, meanwhile I think they're moving to new offices. Talent can be a bit limited in the UK, especially outside of London (and after Brexit). TL;DR: good chance of acquihire
- Nomentatus 10y agoIndeed, "no difference." ARM's rational seems to be that the purchase insures that there remains no difference in support for their products.