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>Would it be better if they cut their losses and stop providing this support? Especially for stuff that doesn't have any alternatives, such as CUDA? They'd los
by bubblethink 8y ago
>Would it be better if they cut their losses and stop providing this support? Especially for stuff that doesn't have any alternatives, such as CUDA?
They'd lose more if they did that. Do you think the whole world of HPC/ML/scientific computing will switch to windows to use nvidia cards ? The answer to that is no. They'll just move over to AMD. ROCM is coming along fairly well. Or something else will pop up. Don't get too attached to blobs.
- twtw 8y agoThey could drop graphics support on Linux with no significant losses to their hpc/ml market.
- bubblethink 8y agoYes, that is somewhat true I think. They could just expose an accelerator device without any graphics capabilities. I was replying to the parent's point that CUDA is not hostage. They lose more if they drop CUDA on linux.