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That sounds awful and a big reason why I think GPUs will go the way of the dinosaur in the near future.
by moab 4y ago
That sounds awful and a big reason why I think GPUs will go the way of the dinosaur in the near future.
- skavi 4y agoNothing about GPUs technically forces you to code for specific architectures. It’s really no different than optimizing your code for a specific CPU.
- moab 4y agoI think it's quite different. For GPUs these archiecture-specific optimizations / primitives make orders of magnitude difference (and also change from version to version). On the other hand, multicore code I wrote ~8 years ago in TBB or Cilk is still extremely fast compared to hand-optimized code customized for current CPU architectures. To summarize my gripe, it's is that the abstractions on GPUs seem broken, and we still don't have a good model for how to write high performance GPU code that just works and keeps getting faster as GPUs get faster.