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> I wish AMD would offer something like NVIDIA's Inception program to gift some accelerators and GPUs to suitable C++ coders (like me) so that there's at least
by Sebb767 5y ago
> I wish AMD would offer something like NVIDIA's Inception program to gift some accelerators and GPUs to suitable C++ coders (like me) so that there's at least a few tutorials on the internet on how other people managed to successfully use AMD + ROCm for deep learning.
Why not go a step further and pay some people to integrate good first-party support in the most popular libraries? It would probably be quite cheap in comparison and kickstart the adaption.
- frozenport 5y agoNVIDIA, Intel, Apple, Google (TPU) have hundreds of engineers working on squeezing the performance out of their chips. This is not trivial.
- dagmx 5y agoSometimes it's cheaper to pay a third party to implement something than going through the hiring process and extraneous legalities of contribution. Sponsoring a third party to do something or contracting them, is very common.
- joconde 5y agoIt will be expensive no matter who does it. Probably more for a contractor, given that they’d have less experience and internal knowledge of the hardware.