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To me this just looks like Intel saw what Nvidia has accomplished with CUDA, locking in large portions of the scientific computing community with a hardware spe
by TOMDM 5y ago
To me this just looks like Intel saw what Nvidia has accomplished with CUDA, locking in large portions of the scientific computing community with a hardware specific API and going "yeah me too thanks"
Thankfully, accelerated math libraries already exist for Python without the vendor lockin.
- bostonsre 5y agoIntel has been releasing mkl/math kernel libraries for Java for a really long time. Hopefully core python devs can learn a few tricks and similar changes can make it upstream.