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There was an announcement last year that AMD FirePro™ S9300 x2 were coming to Google cloud. Any reason why those have not hit general release yet? I have some O

by dman 9y ago

There was an announcement last year that AMD FirePro™ S9300 x2 were coming to Google cloud. Any reason why those have not hit general release yet? I have some OpenCL workloads that I could put to good use on those.

boulos 9y ago
Still on it, and now coming really soon (hopefully). There were a lot of interesting challenges (power, software, datacenter process) along the way, since this is very new hardware to Google. Out of curiosity, why OpenCL on AMD rather than OpenCL on say a K80 or AWS's M60s or upcoming P100s? (That is, are you blocked on having an AMD part, or do you have a great reason to prefer AMD for compute) Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and want to sell you GPUs!)
- dman 9y ago
  Because the code is already validated / tuned and deployed on AMD parts. For a while NVidia dragged their feet on OpenCL so validating the app on their hardware was not possible.
  - boulos 9y ago
    Great feedback, thanks.
    - agibsonccc 9y ago
      FWIW, we haven't invested in opencl for anything due to the fragmentation. It's great to see google pushing an alternative. Overall though, I would basically consider opencl "AMD's thing".
- redtr 9y ago
  Not original poster, but for us is the lack of OpenCL2.0 on nVIDIA HW (mainly shared data structures) Only OCL 1.2 on Linux from nVIDIA