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As a ML outsider, this was the first I’ve ever heard of it. Obviously I’m not the target audience, but I’m just shocked that I didn’t even know Intel was in the
by Karupan 3y ago
As a ML outsider, this was the first I’ve ever heard of it. Obviously I’m not the target audience, but I’m just shocked that I didn’t even know Intel was in the game.
- Dalewyn 3y agoIntel's going big in their own way by putting "AI" accelerators and the like in their latest and future processors, kind of need to be living under a rock to just miss it in these kinds of tech circles. But that said, Intel suffers from the same fundamental problem as AMD: They aren't Nvidia and they can't CUDA.
- singhrac 3y agoI’d argue you don’t need CUDA if PyTorch runs well on your platform, which is what everyone is trying to show with these MLPerf results. I think Intel’s strategy with oneAPI is not bad, it’s just late.
- Karupan 3y agoI do live under a rock when it comes to Intel I guess, since I haven't really looked into buying anything with their processor in 7 years :)
- varispeed 3y agoMore like Intel stopped being interesting years ago. For me, they just keep reheating the old designs and stopped innovate. To get my attention back, they would have to create something that would get to me through some mainstream articles. Otherwise, I think following Intel is a waste of time. They need to prove themselves.
- Art9681 3y agoI saw a project in GitHub a few weeks ago that claimed to run CUDA in Intel GPUs. It’s named ZLUDA. Any thoughts on that? I have not tried it.
- loudmax 3y agoIt might be technically possible to port CUDA to Intel or AMD, but there might be patents of copyright rules that prevent legal redistribution. This wouldn't be the first time that IP rules stifle free market competition. Probably better to aim for PyTorch compatibility. In practice, that's how most AI programmers interact with their GPUs.
- dogma1138 3y agoOneAPI is quite pleasant to work with, far more so than ROCm.