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Only 16 years after Nvidia released CUDA
by HideousKojima 3y ago
Only 16 years after Nvidia released CUDA
- grubbs 3y agoI remember chatting with some Nvidia rep at CES 2008. He showed me how cuda could be used to accelerate video upscale and encoding. I was 19 at the time and just a hobbyist. I thought that was the coolest thing in the world. (And yes I "snuck" in to CES using a fake business card to get my badge)
- gdiamos 3y agoBack in the day, using CUDA was really hard. It got better as more people built on it and it got battle tested.
- hyperbovine 3y agoIt's still not exactly easy, and the API has not changed much since the aughts except than to become richer and more complicated. But almost nobody writes raw CUDA anymore. It's abstracted away beneath many layers of libraries, e.g. Flax -> Jax -> lax -> XLA -> CUDA.
- Dah00n 3y ago[flagged]
- HideousKojima 3y agoThe hilarious thing is I'm actually an AMD fanboy, I've made a point to only get their GPUs (and CPUs) for the last decade or so. But I'm still annoyed and frustrated that it's taken them so long to get their act together on this.
- jacquesm 3y agoWhat a useless comment. It is you that drives the fire, I would be more than happy with a bit more competition. The sad reality is that right now if you want to focus on your job and not on the intermediary layers that NV is pretty much the only game in town. The 'Team Green' bs came out of the gaming world where people with zero qualifications were facing off with other people with zero qualifications about whose HW was 'the best' when 'the best' meant: I can play games. But this is entirely different, it is about long and deep support of a complex hardware/software combo where whole empires are built upon that support. Those are not decisions made lightly and unfortunately AMD has done very poorly so far. This announcement is great but the proof of the pudding will be in the eating, so let's see how many engineers they dedicate to delivering top notch software.