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But wasn't it already tried with OpenCL... And quite failed to just do that? For now, in parallel to efforts to reach parity to cuda or something, I'd rather ha
by touisteur 5y ago
But wasn't it already tried with OpenCL... And quite failed to just do that? For now, in parallel to efforts to reach parity to cuda or something, I'd rather have them optimize the mother out of the necessary libraries (tensor basic blocks, basically reaching cudnn/tensorrt-level, crazy limit-of-hardware BLAS stuff, and most of the API landscape)... 47tflops that I can't use because I have to reimplement and optimize the basics isn't that interesting, except for supercompute.
- AnthonyMouse 5y agoOpenCL was created by Apple, then Apple abandoned it. AMD picked it up, but at the time AMD didn't have competitive hardware and therefore didn't have the resources to make it good, and Intel wasn't in the GPU game then. Now AMD has money and Intel has even more money and they could certainly produce a competitive solution together if they tried.
- touisteur 5y agoAh I didn't know that part of history, thanks. Let's hope they can find someplace to meet that won't fragment this space more... Not a big fan of the churn on the Intel universe these last years. Just one example but between mkldnn, dnnl, onednn... The dead github 'this project has been superseded by project x' links are quite discouraging. And I'm not sure of the future of openvino in the oneapi offering it's really a blur, but maybe I'm following close enough. And I'm just a dabbler/noob. Can't imagine the effect on someone just trying to maintain an app over the last 5-10 years...