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Im curious, what stops AMD writing an api/abi compatibility layer for cuda?
by photonbeam 4y ago
Im curious, what stops AMD writing an api/abi compatibility layer for cuda?
- bno1 4y agohttps://rocmdocs.amd.com/en/latest/Programming_Guides/HIP-porting-guide.html https://rocmdocs.amd.com/en/latest/Programming_Guides/HIP-po...
- JonChesterfield 4y agoLawsuit risk from nvidia seems likely
- fxtentacle 4y agoMy impression: arrogance The whole ROCm stuff is built around the idea that you push out a half-working, buggy, and slow mess as Open Source and then the community will take over and maintain it into a usable product. But that hasn't happened so far. Instead of building their own FOSS libraries, people are happy to use NVIDIA's proprietary libraries.
- mepian 4y agoThe fate of ZLUDA points to the existence of some kind of legal obstacle: https://thenewstack.io/zluda-a-cuda-for-intel-gpus-needs-a-new-maintainer/ https://thenewstack.io/zluda-a-cuda-for-intel-gpus-needs-a-n...