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Not sure what hw support adds here. While I prefer stacks that a megacorp doesn't own at the bottom, my point is it's the software. Current langs + frameworks a
by lmeyerov 7y ago
Not sure what hw support adds here. While I prefer stacks that a megacorp doesn't own at the bottom, my point is it's the software. Current langs + frameworks are relegated to a tiny fragment of the coding population. So more about making it as easy to reach for GPU / data parallel stuff as folks do for say Spark or Pandas.
We tried working with AMD & Intel early on here but they didn't really get it (architects, investors, and a few other decision-maker-types). It's easy to put $10-20M into the ecosystem and just build it -- a16z finally has several years after we pitched it to them, and so did Nvidia with rapids.ai after we pushed them for a couple years ("what's a dataframe?"). Nothing stopping AMD/Intel and other opencl ecosystem players. But they still aren't.