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Unfortunate name clash with NVIDIAs Triton Inference Server: https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-triton-inference-server https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-tri

Unfortunate name clash with NVIDIAs Triton Inference Server: https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-triton-inference-server https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-triton-inference-server

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polynomial 5y ago
My first thought exactly. This will cause nothing but confusion and Triton (the inference server) is well integrated into the space. So it's especially weird to see it coming from OpenAI, and not a more random startup. It honestly makes no sense they would deliberately do this, unless there is some secret cult of Triton that is going on in the Bay Area world of AI/ML.
6gvONxR4sf7o 5y ago
The author commented on reddit about that (https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/otdpkx/n_introducing_triton_opensource_gpu_programming/h6uo9hr/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/otdpkx/n_i...) > PS: The name Triton was coined in mid-2019 when I released my PhD paper on the subject (http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~htk/publication/2019-mapl-tillet-kung-cox.pdf http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~htk/publication/2019-mapl-tille...). I chose not to rename the project when the Triton inference server came out a year later since it's the only thing that ties my helpful PhD advisors to the project.
- king_magic 5y ago
  The author is unfortunately wrong. NVIDIA's Triton was referenced in marketing material as far back as 2018. https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-serves-deep-learning-inference/ https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-serves-deep-learnin...
  - wyldfire 5y ago
    Confusingly similar: check Same industry: check Maybe the author should expect an incoming C&D. IIRC US is first-to-use, so NVIDIA would prevail?
  - 0x008 5y ago
    Are we sure that marketing article was not changed after the fact? The Nvidia Triton Release notes show 'Starting in release 20.03, TensorRT Inference Server is now called Triton Inference Server.' [0] It kind of looks like the article just changed the heading later since in the article the docker images they refer to etc. are all still called 'tensorrtserver' which was the project's name before they changed naming in Release 20.03. The OpenAI-Triton Author says on reddit: 'You can also look at the github history and you will see that there is no mention of the "Triton inference server" up until version 2.0, which wasn't out in 2019 (I ran `git reset --hard v1.9.0 ; grep -ir "triton" .`)' [1] - [0]: https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/triton-inference-server/release-notes/rel_20-03.html#rel_20-03 https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/triton-inference-server... - [1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/otdpkx/n_introducing_triton_opensource_gpu_programming/h6uo9hr/ https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/otdpkx/n_i...
    - king_magic 5y ago
      Eh, I suspect the author is mistaken here, but who knows, maybe that was updated after the fact? Hard to say who is right.
cyberpunk 5y ago
I'm sure Joyent used the word also for their Hypervisor [0] 0: https://www.joyent.com/smartos https://www.joyent.com/smartos
dvcrn 5y ago
Also name clash with Triton, a binary analysis framework - https://github.com/JonathanSalwan/Triton https://github.com/JonathanSalwan/Triton
0x0EB0DA10 5y ago
Also clashed with Triton[0], a demoscene group famous for its Crystal Dreams 2 demo, which featured zooming mandlebrot on 386 PC https://youtu.be/BLMUfBikxTY?t=182 https://youtu.be/BLMUfBikxTY?t=182 [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triton_(demogroup) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triton_(demogroup)
pontusrehula 5y ago
Maybe name it Trinitron. That name is not used so much anymore :)

Unfortunate name clash with NVIDIAs Triton Inference Server: https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-triton-inference-server https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-triton-inference-server

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polynomial 5y ago

My first thought exactly. This will cause nothing but confusion and Triton (the inference server) is well integrated into the space. So it's especially weird to see it coming from OpenAI, and not a more random startup. It honestly makes no sense they would deliberately do this, unless there is some secret cult of Triton that is going on in the Bay Area world of AI/ML.

6gvONxR4sf7o 5y ago

The author commented on reddit about that (https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/otdpkx/n_introducing_triton_opensource_gpu_programming/h6uo9hr/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/otdpkx/n_i...) > PS: The name Triton was coined in mid-2019 when I released my PhD paper on the subject (http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~htk/publication/2019-mapl-tillet-kung-cox.pdf http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~htk/publication/2019-mapl-tille...). I chose not to rename the project when the Triton inference server came out a year later since it's the only thing that ties my helpful PhD advisors to the project.

king_magic 5y ago
The author is unfortunately wrong. NVIDIA's Triton was referenced in marketing material as far back as 2018. https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-serves-deep-learning-inference/ https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-serves-deep-learnin...
- wyldfire 5y ago
  Confusingly similar: check Same industry: check Maybe the author should expect an incoming C&D. IIRC US is first-to-use, so NVIDIA would prevail?
- 0x008 5y ago
  Are we sure that marketing article was not changed after the fact? The Nvidia Triton Release notes show 'Starting in release 20.03, TensorRT Inference Server is now called Triton Inference Server.' [0] It kind of looks like the article just changed the heading later since in the article the docker images they refer to etc. are all still called 'tensorrtserver' which was the project's name before they changed naming in Release 20.03. The OpenAI-Triton Author says on reddit: 'You can also look at the github history and you will see that there is no mention of the "Triton inference server" up until version 2.0, which wasn't out in 2019 (I ran `git reset --hard v1.9.0 ; grep -ir "triton" .`)' [1] - [0]: https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/triton-inference-server/release-notes/rel_20-03.html#rel_20-03 https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/triton-inference-server... - [1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/otdpkx/n_introducing_triton_opensource_gpu_programming/h6uo9hr/ https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/otdpkx/n_i...
  - king_magic 5y ago
    Eh, I suspect the author is mistaken here, but who knows, maybe that was updated after the fact? Hard to say who is right.

cyberpunk 5y ago

I'm sure Joyent used the word also for their Hypervisor [0] 0: https://www.joyent.com/smartos https://www.joyent.com/smartos

dvcrn 5y ago

Also name clash with Triton, a binary analysis framework - https://github.com/JonathanSalwan/Triton https://github.com/JonathanSalwan/Triton

0x0EB0DA10 5y ago

Also clashed with Triton[0], a demoscene group famous for its Crystal Dreams 2 demo, which featured zooming mandlebrot on 386 PC https://youtu.be/BLMUfBikxTY?t=182 https://youtu.be/BLMUfBikxTY?t=182 [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triton_(demogroup) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triton_(demogroup)

pontusrehula 5y ago

Maybe name it Trinitron. That name is not used so much anymore :)